Sustainable human-robot co-production for the bicycle industry

Doris Aschenbrenner; Åsa Fasth Berglund; Matthijs Netten; Zoltan Rusak; Johan Stahre

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.144

Sustainable human-robot co-production for the bicycle industry

Doris Aschenbrenner^*, Åsa Fasth Berglund, Matthijs Netten, Zoltan Rusak, Johan Stahre

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Abstract

Bicycle production has not changed much over the last 100 years, it is still performed mainly by manual labor in mass production. During the global pandemic, the demand for ecologically friendly and customized transport has increased. Hence, customers start to impose the same requirements on bikes as on cars: they want more customized products and short delivery time. This publication describes an approach to transform bicycle manufacturing towards human-robot co-production to enable smaller batch sizes and production on-shoring. We list the challenges of this transformation, our applied methods, and presents preliminary results of the cobot-driven prototypes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	857-862
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	104
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.144
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	54th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Ssystems, CMS 2021 - Patras, Greece Duration: 22 Sept 2021 → 24 Sept 2021

Keywords

Assembly
Automation analysis
Bicycles
Cobots
Industry 4.0
Manufacturing

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