The place and role of automated systems in mechanical engineering

Tver State Technical University, Tver, Russia

^* Corresponding author: gbtms@yandex.ru

Abstract

Introducing off-the-shelf solutions for automated machine-building systems causes some difficulties related to attempts to change the algorithms of process participants, and also to the need to duplicate information transfer chains, as most systems operate autonomously within certain production units. The author proposes a new approach to organizing the interaction of automated systems of machine-building enterprises. Effective implementation of automated systems is possible only based on investigation and optimization of machine-building enterprise activities, and based on analysis and quality assessment of functions performance by participants of different enterprise processes. The method comprises identifying the process for preparing production and output of finished products, and processes of lower levels (auxiliary), but necessary for implementing the main, and functionally related to it. The main functional process defines a time parameter and auxiliary processes accompanying the main process. These auxiliary processes are financial, material, personnel, and organizational support processes. The article contains the basic principles of creating a complex of automated machine-building systems. The article analyzes the role and place of each of the main functional automated systems. The author gives considerations on the sequence of implementation of the project of digitalization of machine-building production.