Automated Tool Prep/Crib and Tool Tracking
PublicThis MQP has two goals that aim to show the feasibility of automating CNC maintenance tasks for General Electric Aviation. The first goal was to design a system capable of changing used end mills within a tool holder used by CNC machines. A process using an industrial arm owned by GE was created capable of obtaining this goal with reasonable constraints. The second goal was to create a method to automatically keep track of the location of all tool holders as well as keep a log of all jobs on which they have been used. GE currently does not keep track of their tool holders in any way which causes problems when a one becomes defective. An RFID solution was designed and implemented to keep track of any tool holder GE wants.
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- E-project-042914-220448
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- Year
- 2014
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- Date created
- 2014-04-29
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- Major
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Automated_Tool_Prep_and_Tracking.pdf | Public | Download | |
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Presentation_Day.pdf | Public | Download | |
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poster.pdf | Public | Download |
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