Mating Interface Methods of Assembled Modules in Reconfigurable Machine Tool  

Oleh:

Maideen, Normariah Che ; Almanar, Indra Putra ; Sahudin, Shuib ; Ali, Amir Yazid

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: APCOMS 2009: The 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Manufacturing System: Reconfigurable Manufacturing System for Facing Turbulent Manufacturing Environment, November 4th-5th, 2009, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, page VI.26-30.
Topik: Reconfigurable Machine Tool (RMT); Mating Modules; FMEA; Function Analysis;
Fulltext: APCOMS G6-4.pdf (129.82KB)

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The configuration of Reconfigurable Machine Tool (RMT) should be rapidly changed in response to changes in products and demands. To fulfill its purpose, the RMT should be able to regain its intended quality performance as in its predetermined configurations. Since the machine tool is reconfigurable, the machine consists of several functional modules that can be reconfigured to cater different functions of machining processes. A lot of studies have been conducted on the RMTs, but no attention so far has been given on how those modules should be integrated to achieve its repeatable predetermined performance in each configuration. The mating interface plays the important role in order to regain the predetermined performance. In this work, three mating interface methods developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research group intended to be used on ABB 6400R industrial robot were considered. This is because there is no information available for machine tools. These models were taken because their properties closely resemble to those of machine tools. Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) and function analysis were conducted. The results show the three methods have some flaws.

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