Design of an Articulated Robotic Arm for Cooling and Touchup Area in Electronics Manufacturing Company

Automation plays a very crucial role in increasing the production of a company and helping that company to create a monopoly in its field. In 1913 Ford Motors used the production line which started the evolution of automation in manufacturing industries. Automation not only helped in increasing the productivity of the company but also helped in decreasing the manpower which ultimately helped in cost saving and proved out to be one of the crucial factors in increasing the productivity of manufacturing plants. The main objective of this paper is to increase the productivity of the company via automation. This paper presents a 4° of freedom articulated robotic arm which works as a pick and place robot for the pallets to eliminate the cooling time in touchup area to reduce the cycle time of the line and to increase the units per hour (UPH) of that line eventually increasing the productivity of the company. The robotic arm design is done using solid works. The paper is focused mainly on mechanical design of the structure.