A VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING LABORATORY
EGR 474 - Integrated Manufacturing
Mitsubishi RV-M1 - Articulated
Windows NT and Linux Servers / Clients
Serial and Parallel Interfaces
3. Robotic cell control with PLCs
6. NC machine integration into workcells
• Students access equipment 24 hours a day using the Internet
• Program simulation and execution remotely for robots and NC
- more effective use of equipment by sharing
- simulation can be done off line
• Prelab program development is expected before the lab sessions
- students grasp fundamentals before laboratory
- concrete exposure to equipment raises confidence
• The point-and-click environment is more appealing to students
AN EXAMPLE (the Seiko RT3000 Robot)
• The lab is in use and development will continue this winter
• The lab is available on-line for general access
• Next year the lab should support high level cell programming
• The lab has been developed using programs/files written in,
Java - use interfaces/controls inside Netscape and servers
HTML - web page structure for the Internet