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COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND GEOMETRIC MODELING Introduction CAD definition Shigleys design process CAD activities benefits of CAD CAD hardware : Input / Output devices CRT raster scan & direct view storage tube LCD, plasma panel, mouse, digitizer, image scanner, drum plotter, flat bed plotter, laser printer secondary storage devices : hard disks, floppy disks, CD, DVD, flash memory. Types of CAD system: PC based CAD system workstation based CAD system graphics workstation configuration and typical specification
UNIT-V GT-FMS-CIM-AGVAND ROBOTICS Product Development Cycle sequential engineering concurrent engineering rapid proto typing: concept and applications 3D printing. Group Technology(GT) concept of part family parts classification and coding coding structure MICLASS OPITZ benefits of GT. FMS & CIM introduction to FMS types of manufacturing - FMS components FMS layouts types of FMS : flexible manufacturing cell flexible turning cell flexible transfer line flexible machine systems benefits of FMS - concept of CIM historical background - CIM hardware CIM software CIM wheel - introduction to intelligent manufacturing system virtual machining. Integrated material handling AGV: working principle and benefits Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS). ROBOT definition robot anatomy and classifications robot configurations industrial applications: characteristics, material transfer, machine loading, welding, spray coating, assembly and inspection
4. Yoram Koren, Computer control of manufacturing systems, International Edition 1983, McGraw Hill Book Co
DEFINITION OF CAD:
CAD is the Acronym for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing, computer systems used to design and manufacture products. The term CAD/CAM implies that an engineer can use the system both for designing a product and for controlling manufacturing processes. For example, once a design has been produced with the CAD component, the design itself can control the machines that construct the part.
Activities of CAD
a) Geometric modeling:
Geometric modeling is concerned with the computer capatible mathematical description of the geometry of an object to be designed. The mathematical description allow s the image of the object to be displayed and manipulated on a graphics terminal. The CAD software provides the geometric modeling capabilities
b) Engineering analysis:
For any engineering design, some type of analysis is required. The analysis may involve stressstrain calculations heat transfer calculations, the use of differential equations to describe the dynamic behavior of the system being designed. The computer can be used to aid in this analysis work.
(ii) Layering: Overlaying the geometric image of the final shape of the machine part on the top of the image of the rough casting. This ensures that sufficient material is available on the casting to accomplish the final machining operations.
(iv) Kinematics: The available kinematics packages provide the capability to animate the motion of simple designed mechanisms such hinged components and linkages
But wire frame models have no surface data in it. So, it needs to be converted into surface model for the purpose of various operations in the computer (e.g. computer graphics, structural analysis, collision detection, process planning, etc.)
The high positive voltage is applied to this electrode. Under the action of the applied voltage the electrons are moved with acceleration from cathode to anode. In the absence of the voltage applied to deviating plates of the capacitor the electron beam will be incident on the screen in the center brightening a point in the fluorescing layer. In oscilloscope the analyzed signal after amplification is applied to vertical deviating plates, while the periodic saw tooth signal is applied to horizontal plates.
As a result the electron beam "draws" the dependence of the investigated signal on time on the screen of the tube. Reaching the right side of the screen the beam has to be returned to an initial point at the left side. Thus, if CRT is not blanked during this retrace, then the beam will leave a track crossing the image of investigated signal. For this reason, during retrace a negative voltage is applied to control electrode situated near to cathode and electrons are locked by such a way at the electron gun. As a result, the electron beam will be discontinuous,
CAM Definition
Definition: Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) is the use of computer software and hardware in the translation of computer-aided design models into manufacturing instructions for numerical controlled machine tools.(Computer-Aided Manufacturing) The automation of manufacturing systems and techniques, including numerical control, process control, robotics and materials requirements planning.
The field of computer-aided design has steadily advanced over the past four decades to the stage at which conceptual designs for new products can be made entirely within the framework of CAD software. From the development of the basic design to the Bill of Materials necessary to manufacture the product there is no requirement at any stage of the process to build physical prototypes.
Computer-Aided Manufacturing takes this one step further by bridging the gap between the conceptual design and the manufacturing of the finished product. Whereas in the past it would be necessary for design developed using CAD software to be manually converted into a drafted paper drawing detailing instructions for its manufacture, Computer-Aided Manufacturing software allows data from CAD software to be converted directly into a set of manufacturing instructions.
CAM software converts 3D models generated in CAD into a set of basic operating instructions written in G-Code. G-code is a programming language that can be understood by numerical controlled machine tools essentially industrial robots and the G-code can instruct the machine tool to manufacture a large number of items with perfect precision and faith to the CAD design.
Modern numerical controlled machine tools can be linked into a cell, a collection of tools that each performs a specified task in the manufacture of a product. The product is passed along the cell in the manner of a production line, with each machine tool (i.e. welding and milling machines, drills, lathes etc.) performing a single step of the process.
Benefits of CAM
Safeguard design intent by eliminating all redrawing of geometry. Making CAM functionality available from within solid-modeling systems ensures that even the subtlest engineering change will not be overlooked. Programmers no longer have to search for them and changes are easily implemented in quick CAM revisions.
Eliminate errors that cause rework or scrap by verifying CNC tool paths. NC visualization is the best technique yet. Error-free tool paths are assured and test cuts can be skipped, worry-free.
Slash delivery times and simplify operations by minimizing machine-to-machine transfers and setups. Job simulation addresses ways to minimize setups and transfers between machines. Prequalified tooling, fixturing and work pieces help get rid of the need for incoming inspectionand unpleasant surprises on the loading dock.
Integrate inspection and quality assurance. Geometric dimensioning and tolerance (GD&T) helps avoid potential disputes. When disputes do occur, the data is on hand in CAM to resolve them equitably.
Evaluate workarounds for avoiding production bottlenecks and optimize key equipment. This means delivery promises can be relied on by everyone.
PROCESS PLANNING
INTRODUCTION
Process planning translates design information into the process steps and instructions to efficiently and effectively manufacture products. As the design process is supported by many computer-aided tools, computer-aided process planning (CAPP) has evolved to simplify and improve process planning and achieve more effective use of manufacturing resources.
PROCESS PLANNING
Process planning encompasses the activities and functions to prepare a detailed set of plans and instructions to produce a part. The planning begins with engineering drawings, specifications, parts or material lists and a forecast of demand.
* Routings which specify operations, operation sequences, work centers, standards, tooling and fixtures. This routing becomes a major input to the manufacturing resource planning system to define operations for production activity control purposes and define required resources for capacity requirements planning purposes.
* Process plans which typically provide more detailed, step-by-step work instructions including dimensions related to individual operations, machining parameters, set-up instructions, and quality assurance checkpoints.
* Fabrication and assembly drawings to support manufacture (as opposed to engineering drawings to define the part).
CAPP
Manufacturers have been pursuing an evolutionary path to improve and computerize process planning in the following five stages:
- Manual classification; standardized process plans - Computer maintained process plans - Variant CAPP - Generative CAPP - Dynamic, generative CAPP
Prior to CAPP, manufacturers attempted to overcome the problems of manual process planning by basic classification of parts into families and developing somewhat standardized process plans for parts families (Stage I). When a new part was introduced, the process plan for that family would be manually retrieved, marked-up and retyped. While this improved productivity, it did not improve the quality of the planning of processes and it did not easily take into account the differences between neither parts in a family nor improvements in production processes.
Computer-aided process planning initially evolved as a means to electronically store a process plan once it was created, retrieve it, modify it for a new part and print the plan (Stage II). Other capabilities of this stage are table-driven cost and standard estimating systems.
This initial computer-aided approach evolved into what is now known as "variant" CAPP. However, variant CAPP is based on a Group Technology (GT) coding and classification approach to identify a larger number of part attributes or parameters. These attributes allow the system to select a baseline process plan for the part family and accomplish about ninety percent of the planning work. The planner will add the remaining ten percent of the effort modifying or fine-tuning the process plan. The baseline process plans stored in the computer are manually entered using a super planner concept that is, developing standardized plans based on the accumulated experience and knowledge of multiple planners and manufacturing engineers (Stage III).
The next stage of evolution is toward generative CAPP (Stage IV). At this stage, process planning decision rules are built into the system. These decision rules will operate based on a part's group
While CAPP systems are moving more and more towards being generative, a pure generative system that can produce a complete process plan from part classification and other design data is a goal of the future. This type of purely generative system (in Stage V) will involve the use of artificial intelligence type capabilities to produce process plans as well as be fully integrated in a CIM environment. A further step in this stage is dynamic, generative CAPP which would consider plant and machine capacities, tooling availability, work center and equipment loads, and equipment status (e.g., maintenance downtime) in developing process plans.
The process plan developed with a CAPP system at Stage V would vary over time depending on the resources and workload in the factory. For example, if a primary work center for an operation(s) was overloaded, the generative planning process would evaluate work to be released involving that work center, alternate processes and the related routings. The decision rules would result in process plans that would reduce the overloading on the primary work center by using an alternate routing that would have the least cost impact. Since finite scheduling systems are still in their infancy, this additional dimension to production scheduling is still a long way off.
Dynamic, generative CAPP also implies the need for online display of the process plan on a work order oriented basis to insure that the appropriate process plan was provided to the floor. Tight integration with a manufacturing resource planning system is needed to track shop floor status and load data and assess alternate routings vis--vis the schedule. Finally, this stage of CAPP would directly feed shop floor equipment controllers or, in a less automated environment, display assembly drawings online in conjunction with process plans.
The first key to implementing a generative system is the development of decision rules appropriate for the items to be processed. These decision rules are specified using decision trees, computer languages involving logical "if-then" type statements, or artificial intelligence approaches with object-oriented programming.
CAPP BENEFITS
Significant benefits can result from the implementation of CAPP. In a detailed survey of twenty-two large and small companies using generative-type CAPP systems, the following estimated cost savings were achieved:
* 58% reduction in process planning effort * 10% saving in direct labor * 4% saving in material * 10% saving in scrap * 12% saving in tooling * 6% reduction in work-in-process
* Reduced process planning and production lead-time; faster response to engineering changes * Greater process plan consistency; access to up-to-date information in a central database * Improved cost estimating procedures and fewer calculation errors * More complete and detailed process plans * Improved production scheduling and capacity utilization * Improved ability to introduce new manufacturing technology and rapidly update process plans to utilize the improved technology
Typical MPS's are created by software with user tweaking. Due to software limitations, but especially the intense work required by the "master production schedulers", schedules do not include every aspect of production, but only key elements that have proven their control effectively, such as forecast demand, production costs, inventory costs, lead time, working hours, capacity, inventory levels, available storage, and parts supply. The choice of what to model varies among companies and factories.
The MPS is a statement of what the company expects to produce and purchase (ie. quantity to be produced, staffing levels, dates, available to promise, projected balance).The MPS translates the business plan, including forecast demand, into a production plan using planned orders in a true multi-level optional component scheduling environment. Using MPS helps avoid shortages, costly expediting, last minute scheduling, and inefficient allocation of resources. Working with MPS allows businesses to consolidate planned parts, produce master schedules and forecasts for any level of the Bill of Material (BOM) for any type of part.
Features of MPS
FEATURES
* Accepts and consolidates independent demand from Manual Forecasts, Sales Forecasts, Customer Orders and Electronic (EDI) Customer Releases.
* Allows extensive manipulation of draft master schedules through menu features such as rolling, netting, scrap factoring, and lot sizing.
* Prints the Master Production Schedule in 12 day, 4 week, 12 week and 12 month formats.
* Provides rough-cut capacity planning to evaluate feasibility of the Master Production Schedule in terms of critical materials, manpower, machines and finances.
* Prints Sales Forecasts in units or dollars. * Generates a Master Production Schedule (MPS) file for use by the MRP application.
* The system integrates with the Genzlinger Release/Shipment Communications, Customer Order Processing, Material Requirement Planning and Inventory Management applications.
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning is the process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products. In the context of capacity planning, "capacity" is the maximum amount of work that an organization is capable of completing in a given period of time.
A discrepancy between the capacity of an organization and the demands of its customers results in inefficiency, either in under-utilized resources or unfulfilled customers. The goal of capacity planning is to minimize this discrepancy. Demand for an organization's capacity varies based on changes in production output, such as increasing or decreasing the production quantity of an existing product, or producing new products.
Better utilization of existing capacity can be accomplished through improvements in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE). Capacity can be increased through introducing new techniques, equipment and materials, increasing the number of workers or machines, increasing the number of shifts, or acquiring additional production facilities.
The broad classes of capacity planning are lead strategy, lag strategy, and match strategy.
* Lead strategy is adding capacity in anticipation of an increase in demand. Lead strategy is an aggressive strategy with the goal of luring customers away from the company's competitors. The
* Lag strategy refers to adding capacity only after the organization is running at full capacity or beyond due to increase in demand (North Carolina State University, 2006). This is a more conservative strategy. It decreases the risk of waste, but it may result in the loss of possible customers.
* Match strategy is adding capacity in small amounts in response to changing demand in the market. This is a more moderate strategy.
The main features of MRP are the creation of material requirements via exploding the bills of material, and time-phasing of requirements using posted average lead times. MRP II was developed as the second generation of MRP and it features the closed loop system: production planning drives the master schedule which drives the material plan which is the input to the capacity plan. Feedback loops provide input to the upper levels as a reiterative process.
* Ensure materials and products are available for production and delivery to customers. * Maintain the lowest possible level of inventory. * Plan manufacturing activities, delivery schedules and purchasing activities.
Manufacturing Resource Planning, also known as MRPII, is based on combining Material Requirement Planning (MRP) with Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP), with the additional inputs from other computer systems within the organization. MRPII is designed to widen the range of MRP to allow financial and production planning.
Purpose
It is a combination of people skills, data base accuracy, and computer resources. It integrates many areas of the manufacturing enterprise into a single entity for planning and control purposes, from board level to operative and from five-year plan to individual shop-floor operation. It builds on closed-loop Material Requirements Planning (MRP) by adopting the feedback principle and also extends it to additional areas of the enterprise, primarily manufacturing-related. It is a total company management concept for using human resources more productively.
Building Blocks
A Business Application which manages the resources associated with a manufacturing operation. The MRP begins with the output requirements and decomposes them into inputs and operations sequenced across time.
Using an MRP an organization can identify the necessary raw materials and schedule manufacturing operations within distinct timeframes in order to meet specific commitments.
Critical design reviews are provided by ICS to ensure that your products meet manufacturing requirements, that they are conducive to testing, and that your required materials are available and are of good quality. The ICS Design For Excellence ensures that the issues related to the quality, cost, and manufacturing cycle time of your product are addressed early in their product life which allows your resources to concentrate on the next generation design.
DFX Overview
Design For Excellence (DFX) is concurrent Engineering. Reviews are conducted at key points within a predefined project plan that leverage the experience of the four key organizations within ICS: the Materials, Manufacturing, Quality, and Test Organizations. Design For Component Cost (DFC) reviews are performed on product material listings from the concept phase to recurring points in the sustaining production phase. The results of the DFC reviews alert the product design teams to the end of life availability and lead time issues along with supplier quality issues.
Design For Manufacturing (DFM) reviews are performed at the System Level, Mechanical Piece Level and PCB Level. Issues related to Assembly, Service, Quality, and Process are documented and delivered to the Product Design Team. Manufacturing process strategies are formulated
Design For Quality (DFQ) reviews are ongoing throughout the product life cycle. Approved vendors are monitored for quality and delivery. Process flows and process failure mode effects analysis (PFMEAs) are developed. Control plans are put in place to address areas of risk exposed by the PFMEAs. Gauges, fixtures and tooling are reviewed for robustness along with
accountability in the quality systems and requirements. These items are combined with regular reviews of theoretical vs. actual yield data. process improvement projects. Results from these review processes may drive
Manufacturing, Purchasing and Management. Much of the early and significant work on DFM and DFA was done in the early 1970s by Boothroyd and Dew Hurst. Traditionally, product development was essentially done in several stages.
The designer(s) (who usually had very good knowledge of materials, mechanisms, etc.) would design the product, and sometimes would construct working prototypes. Once the prototype was tested and approved, the manufacturing team would then construct manufacturing plans for the product, including the tooling etc. Often, different materials (e.g. different thickness or type of sheet metal), and different components (e.g. different sized screws etc), would be substituted by the manufacturing team. Their goal was to achieve the same functionality, but make mass production more efficient. However, the majority of the design remained unchanged, since the manufacturing engineers could never be sure whether a change would affect some functional requirement.
Numerical control
DEFINITION Numerical control (NC) refers to the automation of machine tools that are operated by abstractly programmed commands encoded on a storage medium, as opposed to manually controlled via hand wheels or levers, or mechanically automated via cams alone. The first NC machines were built in the 1940s and '50s, based on existing tools that were modified with motors that moved the controls to follow points fed into the system on paper tape.
These early servomechanisms were rapidly augmented with analog and digital computers, creating the modern computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tools that have revolutionized the design process. In modern CNC systems, end-to-end component design is highly automated using CAD/CAM programs. The programs produce a computer file that is interpreted to extract the commands needed to operate a particular machine, and then loaded into the CNC machines for production.
Since any particular component might require the use of a number of different toolsdrills, saws, etc.modern machines often combine multiple tools into a single "cell". In other cases, a number of different machines are used with an external controller and human or robotic operators that move the component from machine to machine. In either case, the complex series of steps needed to produce any part is highly automated and produces a part that closely matches the original CAD design.
If the computer is connected to a number of machines it can distribute programs to different machines as required. Usually, the manufacturer of the control provides suitable DNC software. However, if this provision is not possible, some software companies provide DNC applications that fulfill the purpose. DNC networking or DNC communication is always required when CAM programs are to run on some CNC machine control.
CMM DEFINITION
A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a device for measuring the physical geometrical characteristics of an object. This machine may be manually controlled by an operator or it may be computer controlled. Measurements are defined by a probe attached to the third moving axis of this machine. Probes may be mechanical, optical, laser, or white light, among others.
Description
The typical "bridge" CMM is composed of three axes, an X, Y and Z. These axes are orthogonal to each other in a typical three dimensional coordinate system. Each axis has a scale system that indicates the location of that axis. The machine will read the input from the touch probe, as directed by the operator or programmer. The machine then uses the X,Y,Z coordinates of each of these points to determine size and position. Typical precision of a coordinate measuring machine is measured in Microns, or Micrometers, which is 1/1,000,000 of a meter.
A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is also a device used in manufacturing and assembly processes to test a part or assembly against the design intent. By precisely recording the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the target, points are generated which can then be analyzed via regression algorithms for the construction of features. These points are collected by using a probe that is positioned manually by an operator or automatically via Direct Computer Control (DCC). DCC CMMs0 can be programmed to repeatedly measure identical parts, thus a CMM is a specialized form of industrial robot.
Definition
CNC Definition and PPT
CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) Machines are programmed and controlled by computer so can offer very short set up times and the flexibility to run batches from one offs to several thousand.
EDM Machine
Electric discharge machining (EDM), sometimes colloquially also referred to as spark machining, spark eroding, burning, die sinking or wire erosion, is a manufacturing process whereby a wanted shape of an object, called work piece, is obtained using electrical discharges (sparks). The material removal from the work piece occurs by a series of rapidly recurring current discharges between two electrodes, separated by a dielectric liquid and subject to an electric voltage. One of the electrodes is called tool-electrode and is sometimes simply referred to as tool or electrode, whereas the other is called work piece-electrode, commonly abbreviated in work piece.
When the distance between the two electrodes is reduced, the intensity of the electric field in the volume between the electrodes is expected to become larger than the strength of the dielectric (at least in some point(s)) and therefore the dielectric breaks allowing some current to flow between the two electrodes. This phenomenon is the same as the breakdown of a capacitor (condenser). A collateral effect of this passage of current is that material is removed from both the electrodes.
Spindle Drive
Driver: Spindle Drive
A spindle drive is a primitive type of transmission. A rod, referred to as a spindle, is attached to the output end of and engine. This rod then comes in direct contact with a tired.
There are several limitations to this design. The spindle-tire interface is prone to inefficiency and slippage since the contact area is very limited. Water of any sort on the tire will render a spindle drive unusable until it dries.
The greatest advantage to a spindle driven transmission is simplicity. It is because of this simplicity that spindle driven scooters are the generally the least expensive scooters available.
Low maintenance
Disadvantages
Wear
Spindles cause excessive wear on the tire to which they are connected and require constant readjustment in order to maintain an optimal pressure on a tire's surface. the black magic spindle is an aftermarket spindle that has TONS of grip, but it also wears your tire down a lot faster than a stock or knurled ADA spindle.
Sensitivity
stock Spindles cannot grip the tire on water. but if you have a black magic spindle you can ride on water and you can ride on packed dirt at minimal speeds of coarse.
Pressure stress
In order to maintain an efficient contact, excessive stress must be put on the spindle, and therefore, the engine. It is not uncommon to bend or break a crankshaft on a spindle drive. 3rd bearing supports are sold to help remedy this problem.
Hydraulic systems
A hydraulic or hydrostatic drive system or hydraulic power transmission is a drive or transmission system that uses hydraulic fluid under pressure to drive machinery. The term hydrostatic refers to the transfer of energy from flow and pressure, not from the kinetic energy of the flow. Such a system basically consists of three parts. The generator (e.g. a hydraulic pump, driven by an
Pascal's law is the basis of hydraulic drive systems. As the pressure in the system is the same, the force that the fluid gives to the surroundings is therefore equal to pressure x area. In such a way, a small piston feels a small force and a large piston feels a large force. The same counts for a hydraulic pump with a small swept volume that asks for a small torque combined with a hydraulic motor with a large swept volume that gives a large torque. In such a way a transmission with a certain ratio can be built.
Most hydraulic drive systems make use of hydraulic cylinders. Here the same principle is used- a small torque can be transmitted in to a large force. By throttling the fluid between generator part and motor part, or by using hydraulic pumps and/or motors with adjustable swept volume, the ratio of the transmission can be changed easily. In case throttling is used, the efficiency of the transmission is limited; in case adjustable pumps and motors are used, the efficiency however is very large.
In fact, up to around 1980, a hydraulic drive system had hardly any competition from other adjustable (electric) drive systems. Nowadays electric drive systems using electric servo-motors can be controlled in an excellent way and can easily compete with rotating hydraulic drive systems. Hydraulic cylinders are in fact without competition for linear (high) forces. For these cylinders anyway hydraulic systems will remain of interest and if such a system is available, it is easy and logical to use this system also for the rotating drives of the cooling systems.
DC motor principles. DC motors consist of rotor-mounted windings (armature) and stationary windings (field poles). In all DC motors, except permanent magnet motors, current must be conducted to the armature windings by passing current through carbon brushes that slide over a set of copper surfaces called a commentator, which is mounted on the rotor. The commentator bars are soldered to armature coils. The brush/commentator combination makes a sliding switch that energizes particular portions of the armature, based on the position of the rotor. This process creates north and south magnetic poles on the rotor that are attracted to or repelled by north and south poles on the stator, which are formed by passing direct current through the field windings. It's this magnetic attraction and repulsion that causes the rotor to rotate.
The advantages
The greatest advantage of DC motors may be speed control. Since speed is directly proportional to armature voltage and inversely proportional to the magnetic flux produced by the poles, adjusting the armature voltage and/or the field current will change the rotor speed. Today, adjustable frequency drives can provide precise speed control for AC motors, but they do so at the expense of power quality, as the solid-state switching devices in the drives produce a rich harmonic spectrum. The DC motor has no adverse effects on power quality.
The drawbacks
Power supply, initial cost, and maintenance requirements are the negatives associated with DC motors.
Rectification must be provided for any DC motors supplied from the grid. It can also cause
power quality problems. * The construction of a DC motor is considerably more complicated and expensive than that
of an AC motor, primarily due to the commentator, brushes, and armature windings. An induction motor requires no commentator or brushes, and most use cast squirrel-cage rotor bars instead of true windings two huge simplifications. * Maintenance of the brush/commentator assembly is significant compared to that of
A brushless DC motor (BLDC) is a synchronous electric motor which is powered by direct-current electricity (DC) and which has an electronically controlled commutation system, instead of a mechanical commutation system based on brushes. In such motors, current and torque, voltage and rpm are linearly related. A BLDC motor powering a micro remote-controlled airplane. The motor is connected to a microprocessor-controlled BLDC controller. This 5-gram motor is approximately 11 watts (15 mill horsepower) and produces about two times more thrust than the weight of the plane. Being an out runner, the rotor-can containing the magnets spins around the coil windings on the stator.
* The stepper motor type may have more poles on the stator (fixed permanent magnet). * The reluctance motor.
In a conventional (brushed) DC motor, the brushes make mechanical contact with a set of electrical contacts on the rotor (called the commutator), forming an electrical circuit between the DC electrical source and the armature coil-windings. As the armature rotates on axis, the stationary brushes come into contact with different sections of the rotating commutator. The commutator and brush system form a set of electrical switches, each firing in sequence, such that electrical-power always flows through the armature coil closest to the stationary stator.
In a BLDC motor, the electromagnets do not move; instead, the permanent magnets rotate and the armature remains static. This gets around the problem of how to transfer current to a moving armature. In order to do this, the brush-system/commutator assembly is replaced by an electronic controller. The controller performs the same power distribution found in a brushed DC motor, but using a solid-state circuit rather than a commutator/brush system.
Fundamentals of Operation
Stepper motors operate differently from DC brush motors, which rotate when voltage is applied to their terminals. Stepper motors, on the other hand, effectively have multiple "toothed" electromagnets arranged around a central gear-shaped piece of iron. The electromagnets are energized by an external control circuit, such as a microcontroller. To make the motor shaft turn, first one electromagnet is given power, which makes the gear's teeth magnetically attracted to the electromagnet's teeth. When the gear's teeth are thus aligned to the first electromagnet, they are slightly offset from the next electromagnet. So when the next electromagnet is turned on and the first is turned off, the gear rotates slightly to align with the next one, and from there the process is repeated. Each of those slight rotations is called a "step," with an integer number of steps making a full rotation. In that way, the motor can be turned by a precise angle.
3. The torque curve may be extended by using current limiting drivers and increasing the driving voltage.
4. Steppers exhibit more vibration than other motor types, as the discrete step tends to snap the rotor from one position to another.
5. This vibration can become very bad at some speeds and can cause the motor to lose torque.
6. The effect can be mitigated by accelerating quickly through the problem speeds range, physically damping the system, or using a micro-stepping driver.
Servo Motors
Servo motors are used in closed loop control systems in which work is the control variable. The digital servo motor controller directs operation of the servo motor by sending velocity command signals to the amplifier, which drives the servo motor. An integral feedback device (resolve) or devices (encoder and tachometer) are either incorporated within the servo motor or are remotely mounted, often on the load itself.
These provide the servo motor's position and velocity feedback that the controller compares to its programmed motion profile and uses to alter its velocity signal. Servo motors feature a motion profile, which is a set of instructions programmed into the controller that defines the servo motor operation in terms of time, position, and velocity. The ability of the servo motor to adjust to differences between the motion profile and feedback signals depends greatly upon the type of controls and servo motors used.
See the servo motors Control and Sensors Product section. Three basic types of servo motors are used in modern servo systems: ac servo motors, based on induction motor designs; dc servo motors, based on dc motor designs; and ac brushless servo motors, based on synchronous motor designs. Servo motors are special category of motors, designed for applications involving position control, velocity control and torque control.
1. Lower mechanical time constant. 2. Lower electrical time constant. 3. Permanent magnet of high flux density to generate the field. 4. Fail-safe electro-mechanical brakes.
CNC Programming
NC part programming:
NC part programming consists of planning and documenting the sequence of processing steps to be performed on an NC machine. The documentation portion of part programming involves the input medium used to transmit the program of instructions to the NC machine control unit. Part programming can be accomplished using a variety of procedures ranging from highly manual to highly automated methods.
CNC COMPONENTS
The group of similar parts is known as part family and the group of machineries used to process an individual part family is known as machine cell. It is not necessary for each part of a part family to be processed by every machine of corresponding machine cell. This type of manufacturing in which a part family is produced by a machine cell is known as cellular manufacturing. The manufacturing efficiencies are generally increased by employing GT because the required operations may be confined to only a small cell and thus avoiding the need for transportation of in-process parts.
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Introduction to FMS
Flexible Manufacturing system integrates many of the concepts and technologies. These concepts and technologies include;
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Flexible automation Group technology CNC Tools Automated Materials handling between machines Computer control of machine and Material handling
A flexible manufacturing system consists of a group of processing stations, inter connected by means of an automated material handling and storage system and controlled by an integrated computer system. What gives the FMS its name is that it is capable of processing a variety of different types of parts simultaneously under NC program control at the various workstations.
To provide a method for accomplishing throughput to and from the ASRS and the supporting transportation system, stations are provided to precisely position inbound and outbound loads for pickup and delivery by the crane. A man-aboard AS/RS offers significant florspace savings. This is due to the fact that the storage system heights are no longer limited by the reach height of the order picker.
Shelves or storage cabinets can be stacked as high as floor loading, weight capacity, throughput requirements, and/or ceiling heights will permit. Man-aboard automated storage and retrieval systems are far and away the most expensive picker-to-stock equipment alternative. Aisle-captive storage/retrieval machines reaching heights up to 40 feet cost around $125,000. Hence, there must be enough storage density and/or productivity improvement over cart and tote picking to justify the investment.
Also, because vertical travel is slow compared to horizontal travel, typical picking rates in manaboard operations range between 40 and 250 lines per person-hour. The range is large because there is a wide variety of operating schemes for man-aboard systems. Man-aboard systems are typically appropriate for slow-moving items where space is fairly expensive.
Robotics
Definition robot anatomy and classifications robot configurations industrial applications: characteristics, material transfer, machine loading, welding, spray coating, assembly and inspection.
Definition of Robot
A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical system which, by its appearance or movements, conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own. The word robot can refer to both physical robots and virtual software agents, but the latter are usually referred to as bots. There is no consensus on which machines qualify as robots, but there is general agreement among experts and the public that robots tend to do some or all of the following: move around, operate a mechanical limb, sense and manipulate their environment, and exhibit intelligent behavior, especially behavior which mimics humans or other animals.
This thesis creates Darwin2K, an extensible, automated system for robot configuration synthesis. This research focuses on the development of synthesis capabilities required for many robot design problems: a flexible and effective synthesis algorithm, useful simulation capabilities, appropriate representation of robots and their properties, and the ability to accomodate application-specific synthesis needs. Darwin2K can synthesize and optimize kinematics, dynamics, structural geometry, actuator selection, and task and control parameters for a wide range of robots.
Space robots, on the other hand, have many different body shapes such as a sphere, a platform with wheels or legs and so on. One typical example is the free-flying rover, Sprint Aercam, designed as a sphere to minimize damage if it were to bump into the shuttle or an astronaut.
When robot needs mobility to perform its tasks, the robot's body takes in many forms depending on the environment it operate in. For under water operation, conventional unmanned, submersible robot, alias, Automated Underwater Vehicle is used. To get around, AUV use propellers and rudders to control their direction of travel. Whereas, for land traveling, robot moves around with legs, tracks or wheels. Mars Exploration Rover is one example. Not surprisingly, robots that operate in the air use engines and thrusters to get around. One example is the Cassini, an orbiter on its way to Saturn.
ROBOT ANATOMY:
1. Robot
3. Robot Communication
4. Robot Power
5. Robot Brain