THE ROLE ROBOTICS IN THE PACKING DEPARTMENT OF GARMENT INDUSTRY

THE ROLE ROBOTICS IN THE PACKING DEPARTMENT OF GARMENT INDUSTRY

             The packing of finished garments is done by man and machine. Even for machine packing manual labor is needed. The use of standard size templates is very common in today’s apparel industry. 

            The standard time for folding a full sleeve shirt in 14 seconds by using templates. To reduce the present time taken and to save one labor, it is thought fit to introduce the use of robots in the packing operations of a full sleeve shirt. The concepts of robotic were born in Japan with the sole purpose of reducing man power and saving in time in the manufacturing operations of any product.

 Robot has been defined by”The robot Institute of America as follows:-

“An industrial robot is a reprogrammable, multifunction manipulator”.

             It is a designed to move material, parts, tools or specialized devices, through variable programmed motions, to accomplish a variety of tasks. A robot must have the ability to adapt too many different kinds of jobs. 

General Description of Robot

Components of robot

Many industrial robot manufacturers are producing a variety of robot configurations with various capacities and capabilities. Robots have three common basic components.

a. Manipulator

Manipulators consist of mechanical linkages and joints, actuators, control values and feed back devices.

b. Controller

            The robot’s “brain” that directs movement of the manipulator

c. Power Supply

            The “heart” that provides regulation energy for the manipulator’s actuators.

d. Mechanical Arm

            The motion to the mechanical arm may be linear arm motion or rotational motion. 

1)    The combination of motions included in the arm will determine the type of arm geometry, which is present. 

2)    The basic geometries include rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical and joined spherical. 

3)    With a combination of these motions the arm can move to any required position within the work area.

External Power Source

            The power source required to operate a robot system includes the electricity to power the electronic controller and a hydraulic or pneumatic source to operate the arm motion and en-of arm tooling.

Classification of Robot

            There are many classification techniques available, out of which robot arm geometry classification divides robots into categories based on the shape of the work area produced by the robot arm.  Another technique divides robots into low, medium and high technology machines.

Classification of Robots is as Follows

1. Dedicated robot
2. Machine attending robot
3. Transport robot

The following operation using robotics will be by using the mechanical arm of the robot all actions done by human hands will be replaced by one pneumatic and electronically controlled arm. Similarly wrapping the folded shirts in polyethen / paper will be done by the robotic system.

By means of using Artificial Neural Network system and image processing analysis tools we can predict the actual and exact data’s that is any mis - alignment in the lay during packing with enough some Cv % tolerance.