How to improve the design efficiency of non-standard automated equipment

Standardized product manufacturing follows a complete process system covering the entire product lifecycle, ensuring product standardization. The development of non-standard automated equipment involves knowledge from multiple disciplines, including mechanical structure, processes, electrical engineering, and information technology. It demands high levels of creativity and requires highly skilled personnel; therefore, the product design process must be meticulously refined.

A complete and implementable standardized process system tailored to the specific needs of each company is crucial for the design of non-standard products. However, in reality, most non-standard companies have not yet established a complete design process, resulting in excessive reliance on the designer's own preferences and experience.

Managers at the company or department level must consciously guide employees to work according to the process, standardizing their operational behavior. A well-defined process system is a high-level constraint on a company's execution capabilities, serving as its internal "law."

Actively Implement the "Three-Standardization" Method

The "Three-Standardization" refers to parts standardization, component generalization, and product serialization. Various types of machinery serve society by freeing up manpower and improving production efficiency.

Among these machines, besides standard parts, there are many components with similar structures and process requirements. The "three standardizations" of non-standard equipment can be implemented from these aspects. Parts standardization aims to reduce the variety of parts by standardizing their structure, dimensions, and materials.

Component generalization emphasizes the use of components with the same structure and dimensions within the same series of mechanical products or across different series, maximizing component interchangeability.

Serialization aims to rationally arrange and plan products according to process parameters based on the usage requirements of the same product, obtaining similar products that can meet different usage requirements.

Implementing the "three standardizations" helps reduce design workload, shorten design cycles, and improve product quality; it allows designers to focus their main efforts on the design of key components and mass production;

it facilitates the rational use of raw materials, saves energy, reduces costs, improves quality and reliability, increases labor productivity, enhances product interchangeability, facilitates maintenance, and facilitates product upgrades and improvements.