Po-Chun Yu

The Smart Manufacturing Server solves the challenges and difficulties of mass production. I am the full-stack developer who created this system. The system collects and records the production data and final testing results at every test station (10+) at the production line. It provides a web UI for users to query products' manufacturing traces; thus, users can quickly investigate when a product has defects or is returned by the customer. The web UI also provides a real-time dashboard, which allows the site manager to monitor the current production status. The dashboard shows UPH, volumes, and cycle times. The system improves the data latency from one day to three minutes and streamlines customized report generation.

Industry 4.0 is all about connectivity and data insight. The Smart Factory dashboard provides real-time statistics and the WIP process tracking system. Users can easily manage their factories while making decisions backed by intensive data.

This project is a proof-of-concept and my learning path of ROS2 and NAV2. It demonstrates a scenario that multiple AGVs unload and load packages in parallel. Because of the CPU resource limitation, I only simulated one AGV. The system utilizes the ROS2 and NAV2 frameworks to control the AGV. It has a traffic control node to handle the access at the unloading zone and provides a simple web dashboard to view the current status.