Retrofitting para automação de máquina destinada a abertura de ferramentas de estampo

Abstract

Producing products with quality is essential to remain competitive in the market, to do this are required automated, modern, and wellplanned machines and also qualified aployees to efficiently meet the produc-tion demands. An alternative to the high cost of acquiring new equipment is to carry out a retrofitting process on the machine that you want to keep in use. This process in-volves improving production capacity, giving the machine its original characteristics, as well as any improvements over what was originally planned. In addition, by performing this process, the probability of unexpected machine breakdowns due to equipment or component failure is re-duced, increasing machine availability. In this context, the present work aims to demonstrate the design, project, development, and implementation of a retrofitting of a machine in a metallurgical factory. The decision to retrofitting was made due to cost savings over buying or building a new machine. The purpose of this automation is to make the processes carried out by this machine safer, more reli-able and efficient, as it is essential to maintain machine availability for the manufacturing process, showing the design, development, definition of materials, and software simulations for the execution of a retrofitting project.