Automated Lathe Support Equipment

这所学校拥有一个设备齐全的制造实验室，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，但它们不能提供可以运行，更改和监控的连续过程。因此，不幸的是，在统计过程控制（SPC）、过程监控和实验设计（DOE）方面的实验室努力是人为的。鉴于当今竞争日益激烈的制造业环境，工程专业的学生在整个制造过程中接受良好的培训，并在他们的教育中接触到最先进的过程监测和控制，这是至关重要的。这样的接触使他们能够更有效地从学生过渡到实践工程师。这个项目已经获得了一些重要的部件，现有的数控车床在制造实验室，将允许生产运行的过程中执行。这些组件包括线材矫直机/切断机和气动送料机。这两件设备允许该部门的辛辛那提米拉克龙爪数控车床在生产模式下运行。一个简单的旋转元件（如螺丝或电气端子）的零件程序现在可以运行数百个零件而无需人工干预。学生可以访问一个“过程”，该过程可以作为SPC练习的一部分进行周期性采样，作为DOE练习的一部分进行干扰，或者作为计量练习的一部分进行连续监测。

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.