Equipment Proposal: Building a Prototype Reconfigurable Machine Tool

设备提案：构建原型可重构机床

• 批准号: 9908044
• 负责人: Yoram Koren
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9908044&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Proposal; Building; Prototype; Reconfigurable

This equipment award from the Engineering Research Centers Program provides funding to the Engineering Research Center on Reconfigurable Machining Systems at the University of Michigan to build as proof-of-concept a new type of CNC machine, called the Reconfigurable Machine Tool (RMT). The RMT has two new characteristics: a spindle until that can be added and subtracted from the machine in response to changing demand and design features that are built around a part family to allow cost-effective response to product changes. The ERC holds a patent on this RMT design. The RMT will be used for machinin a part family that contains angled surfaces. This novel 3-axis RMT machine will have the following characteristics: the angle of the cutting tool will be perpendicular to the angled machined-surfaced of the part, the angle of the cutting tool will be adjustable to fit a new part with a different angled surface, and an additional second spindle unit could be integrated into an existing machine in order to double the production rate of the machine exactly when needed. The RMT has been designed as a part of the ERC's research on machine-level design. This proof-of-concept RMT will be used by faculty and students for further research in the design of reconfigurable machine tools and in the ERC's test bed for systems-level design. The ERC is providing cost sharing for this equipment request in the amount of $120,000.

该设备奖来自工程研究中心项目，为密歇根大学可重构加工系统工程研究中心提供资金，用于建造一种新型数控机床，称为可重构机床（RMT）。RMT有两个新特点：主轴直到可以根据不断变化的需求从机器中添加和减去，以及围绕零件族构建的设计特征，以便对产品变化做出经济有效的响应。ERC持有该RMT设计的专利。RMT将用于加工包含有角度表面的零件族。这种新颖的三轴RMT机床将具有以下特点：刀具的角度将垂直于零件的角度加工表面，刀具的角度将可调节，以适应具有不同角度表面的新零件，并且可以在需要时将额外的第二个主轴单元集成到现有机床中，以便使机床的生产率翻倍。RMT被设计为ERC机器级设计研究的一部分。这个概念验证RMT将被教师和学生用于进一步研究可重构机床的设计和ERC的系统级设计测试平台。ERC将为这一设备请求提供12万美元的费用分摊。