Automated Lathe Support Equipment

这所学校拥有设备齐全的制造实验室，包括手动和计算机数控机床。然而，虽然这些机器非常适合零件的离散生产，但它们不能提供可以运行、更改和监控的连续过程。因此，不幸的是，实验室在统计过程控制(SPC)、过程监控和实验设计(DOE)方面的努力是人为的。鉴于当今竞争日益激烈的制造环境，工科学生在整个制造过程中接受良好的培训，并在教育期间接触到最先进的过程监控是至关重要的。这样的接触使他们能够更有效地从学生过渡到实习工程师。该项目已经为制造实验室中现有的数控车床获得了一些重要的部件，这些部件将允许执行生产运行过程。这些部件包括钢丝矫直机/切断机和气动棒材送料机。这两台设备使该部门的辛辛那提Milacron Talon数控车床能够在生产模式下运行。旋转元件(例如，螺丝或电气端子)的简单零件程序现在无需人工干预即可运行数百个零件。学生可以接触到一个“过程”，它可以作为统计过程控制练习的一部分定期抽样，作为能源部练习的一部分被干扰，或作为计量练习的一部分被持续监测。

This school maintains a well-equipped manufacturing laboratory containing both manual and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools. However, while these machines are well suited for discrete production of parts, they do not provide a continuous process that can be run, altered and monitored. Consequently, laboratory efforts in statistical process control (SPC), process monitoring, and design of experiments (DOE) are unfortunately artificial. In light of today's increasingly competitive manufacturing environment, it is essential that engineering students are well trained in the entire manufacturing process and exposed to state-of-the-art process monitoring and control during their education. Such exposure enables them to more effectively make the transition from student to practicing engineer. This project has obtained some important components to an existing CNC lathe in the manufacturing laboratory that will allow a production run of process to be executed. These components include a wire straightener/cut-off machine and a pneumatic bar feeder. These two pieces of equipment allow the department's Cincinnati Milacron Talon CNC Lathe to be run in a production mode. A simple part program for a rotational element (e.g., a screw or an electrical terminal) can now be run for hundreds of pieces without human intervention. Students have access to a "process" that can be periodically sampled as part of an SPC exercise, disturbed as part of a DOE exercise or continuously monitored as part of a metrology exercise.