Origami Carton Non Linear Multi-Body Simulation Towards Industry 4.0: Preliminary Study

Nowadays the industries have to be reactive in order to satisfy the rapid changing market requirements. From a traditional process with dedicated production lines, the industrial world is moving toward to a self-controlled production process and to the auto-managed factory systems named Industry 4.0. This is a very challenging step forward and it requires the knowledge of several parameters many of which cannot be measured on-line. So that, the authors have developed a multi-body model of a folding machines with the aim of estimating parameters such as contact forces and panel trajectory useful for the control algorithm. The model is based on an extended campaign of experimental tests and on solid mathematical formulation that leads to determine an accurate crease non-linear stiffness behaviour.