Automated Lathe Support Equipment

自动车床辅助设备

• 批准号: 9551117
• 负责人: Paul Eagle
• 金额: $ 7.98万
• 依托单位: University of Detroit Mercy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1997-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9551117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Automated; Lathe; Support; Equipment

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.

这所学校拥有一个设备齐全的制造实验室，其中包括手动和计算机数控（CNC）机床。 然而，虽然这些机器非常适合零件的离散生产，但它们不提供可运行、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) 方面的努力都是人为的。 鉴于当今竞争日益激烈的制造环境，工程专业的学生必须在整个制造过程中接受良好的培训，并在学习期间接触最先进的过程监控和控制。 这种接触使他们能够更有效地从学生过渡到实践工程师。 该项目为制造实验室中现有的数控车床配备了一些重要组件，以便执行生产过程。 这些组件包括钢丝矫直机/切断机和气动棒材送料机。 这两套设备使得该部门的 Cincinnati Milacron Talon CNC 车床能够以生产模式运行。 旋转元件（例如螺钉或电气端子）的简单零件程序现在可以运行数百个零件，无需人工干预。 学生可以访问一个“过程”，可以作为 SPC 练习的一部分定期采样、作为 DOE 练习的一部分进行干扰或作为计量练习的一部分进行连续监控。