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- Automação e paralelização de testes em componentes para a mobilidade elétrica futuraPublication . Carvalho, Diogo Filipe Paiva de; Barbosa, Ramiro de SousaWith the increasing demand for electric mobility solutions, from cars to bicycles, the massification of the production of electronic components carries some challenges at the level of production cadence and, consequently, in the cycle times of each industrial process. With this paradigm changeover, companies have joined a more unassailable competitive environment, with an ampler quantity of outcomes in a shorter time and, hence, lower associated costs. The present dissertation will, therefore, focus on the optimisation and manage ment of a test station, integrated into a production line of a rotor position sensor for an electric vehicle. The project involves the automation of a machine, fed by the conveyor of the production line. Will also enclose a Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA) robot to manage the incoming parts of the process. Once a component arrives at the stop position for machine feeding, the robot must re-route it to an available test position, from among the 4 existing nests. Therefore, the robot will have to manage the feeding of the test positions, such as the nest output parts, according to the test result. The machine has a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) as the Central Processing Unit (CPU), programmed in the Nexeed Automation environment. It enables the integration of the machine into the global Internet Of Things (IoT) management (Cloud-Machine), readying the entire concept to be incorporated with a Smart Factory (SF). The implemented automatic system materialises the test station’s cycle time optimization, succeeding in the 9-second average test time target. After the imple mentation of this cell, one operator will solely be required to supervise the testing, achieving continuous production in large quantities. The station will handle incom ing Workpiece Carrier (WPC), tracking their workflow through Nexeed Manufac turing Execution System (MES). With the final mechanisation, the company will reinforce its presence in the electric mobility market, making use of the parallelization concept for the test procedure.