Equipment Proposal: Building a Prototype Reconfigurable Machine Tool

这项来自工程研究中心计划的设备奖为密歇根大学可重构加工系统工程研究中心提供资金，用于制造一种新型的数控机床，称为可重构机床(RMT)，作为概念验证。RMT具有两个新特征：主轴，直到可以根据不断变化的需求添加和减去机器，以及围绕部件系列构建的设计功能，以实现对产品变化的经济高效响应。ERC拥有这种RMT设计的专利。RMT将用于加工包含倾斜曲面的零件族。这种新型的三轴RMT机床将具有以下特点：刀具的角度将垂直于零件的倾斜加工表面，刀具的角度将可调整以适应具有不同角度表面的新零件，并且可以在现有机床中集成额外的第二主轴单元，以便在需要时准确地将机床的生产率提高一倍。RMT已被设计为ERC机器级设计研究的一部分。这一概念验证RMT将被教职员工和学生用于可重构机床设计的进一步研究，并在ERC的系统级设计试验台上使用。资源中心为这项设备申请提供了120 000美元的费用分摊。

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.