Automation of batch size production

What is the best strategy für factoiro?

produce a specific number of green circuids

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Idea and step by step basic solution: Lisa Weisenstein
Improvement and Reengineering: Fabian Gollin
Blog enty: Martin Wölker

That depends a lot on what you want to achieve. Play around and shoot rockets to space, fight and kill the natives, build a nice mega-factory and look how it works beautifully or automate big systems and optimize them.

Lot size production

This is a really small lesson in automating of a production for small batches.

This means the factory has a requirement for a specific number of materials. You should produce exact this number. When the task is done there is no more lying around, nothing on belts, nothing in the in- and out-buffers of the machines.

If you do it right the is no waste of material at all. But this has to be controlled exactly.

video learning series

(All videos in German. Use the automated translation. The results are quite good)

This video explains a basic automation situation. Produce exact a specific number of green circuids and supply only the correct number of iron plates and copper cables. As a useful side effect the pruduction starts automatically if some greens are consumed. So this is pull logic.

With some debugging and improvements of the first solution we get a slightly better one. This gradual improvement, known as continual improvement process, has its roots in the japanese kaizen. But obviously Kaisen, CIP, kontunuierlicher Verbesserungsprozess (German) is not the same.

Reengineering means rethinking an existing situation and completely revising it. As e result you get a more flexible and more roubust soultion.

And finally Fabian programmed a sequential logic. That is the consistent further development of the original task. In german that is called ↪ Ablaufsteuerung, but in the english wikipedia I can´t find it.

Critic

You may say: this is simply a technical overkill, to many combinators and therefore far too expensive compared to the simple task and the few conveyors, inserters and only one assembling machine.

You are right in the world of factorio. But a great task for learning basic automation.

And in real life, this little bit of eletronics cost nothing compared to the conveyors, inserters and the assembling machine. A simple Arduino Nano with some light barrier would be sufficient.

Martins wahre Logistik

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