Requirement
State what the complete solution must achieve for repeatable production using existing robot-cell upgrades, including your production pattern and who will review the result.
Industrial automation and robotics
Robot Cell Retrofits Specification Checklist
Use this practical checklist to describe your requirements for robot cell retrofits around representative parts, tooling and the complete process sequence, line connections and required results.
A useful specification for robot cell retrofits describes your operating range, line connections and required results while leaving room for the supplier to propose the best method.
Use this checklist for repeatable production using existing robot-cell upgrades and separate confirmed facts, realistic ranges and items that need a trial.
On the production floor
Describe what the complete process needs to achieve — Robot Cell Retrofits
Plan robot cell retrofits around your parts, process, cycle time, tooling, recovery and acceptance criteria. Discuss the highest-risk feasibility questions with Oxford Industrial Automation. A clear brief should state the operating range for part, product and process variation for existing robot-cell upgrades and your requirements for run-off criteria and production evidence.
Discuss your application
Your checklist
Application, operation and results
Product, part or pack
Operation and interfaces
Results and support
Write measurable requirements
For Robot Cell Retrofits, turn each checklist item into a range and a test
Range
Record normal and credible extremes for part, product and process variation for existing robot-cell upgrades, arrival pattern and presentation and required cycle and production pattern; avoid relying on one nominal value.
Check
Define representative examples from repeatable production using existing robot-cell upgrades, the method, repetitions, acceptable range and result record so you and the supplier share the same expectation.
For robot cell retrofits, use “shall” only for a requirement that can be demonstrated. Keep preferences, assumptions, provisional line connections and future options clearly separate.
Connected responsibilities
Be clear about what sits around your robot cell retrofits
Your final robot cell retrofits scope must also account for operator access, recovery and changeover, run-off criteria and production evidence, current regulations and the conditions at your site.
- Cycle time depends on the complete process rather than robot speed alone.
- Part presentation, tolerances and recovery cases must be included in feasibility work.
- Collaborative operation or automatic handling cannot be assumed safe without an application assessment.