Development trend of flexible production line

Since the birth of the MIT CNC milling machine in 1954, flexible automation entered the practical phase of production in the early 1970s. Over the decades, flexible automation has grown rapidly from the application of single CNC machines to machining centers, flexible manufacturing cells, flexible production lines and computer integrated manufacturing systems.

The trend of flexible production line has two aspects

It is a combination of computer-aided design and auxiliary manufacturing system, using the typical process data of the original product series, combining different modules into various modular flexible systems, logistics and information flow.

On the other hand, it is a computer-integrated manufacturing system that automates the entire production process, from product decision making, product design, production to sales and, above all, manages the level of automation. The flexible production line is only one component of this large system.

With the maturity of the automation production line technology and the development of social science, the traditional automation production line has been unable to meet the diversified production needs of enterprises for the products, so production line has been developed on the basis of the service dynamic production line, and the automation equipment manufacturer has also invested a lot of money in the research and development of the flexible production line, after years of precipitation, the automation flexible production line technology has been quite mature, and has been verified by the market.