SILVERLINE use case: Introduction of a robotic cell in the production shop floor

Silverline produces built-in appliances. Its production process uses several kinds of very simple machines for bending metal parts and components, which were manually fed mainly because of the variability of the process itself and the lack of skilled personnel, in the production line, able to manage automatic machines or robots. In fact, despite SILVERLINE being a large company that exports in the entire world, it is operating in a central region of Turkey, where the population still has, on average, a low level of education. The introduction of robots, although very challenging in terms of production speed and precision, had always been rejected due to their programming and reconfiguration difficulties.

A system, easily reconfigurable and programmable, with a combination of a robot and a panel bender has been builtup. The HRI developed is able to adapt automatically to the operator’s skills, impairments or stress/tiredness.