Sandwich materials offer high stiffness in combination with small weight. Functional integration allows for additional active and passive functionalities. The paper deals with sandwich materials with sensor and actuat...
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Sandwich materials offer high stiffness in combination with small weight. Functional integration allows for additional active and passive functionalities. The paper deals with sandwich materials with sensor and actuator functionality using integrated piezoceramics. The challenges in production are examined in the paper by experiments and numerical simulation. In order to enable the sandwich material for forming, the adhesive properties are highly significant. An appropriate process chain is developed for manufacturing a semi-finished part with integrated piezoceramics which is suitable for forming.
The premise of this work is that more guidance is required for the application of the simultaneous simulation of material flows and energy flows. This assumption is supported by the findings of a systematic review whi...
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The premise of this work is that more guidance is required for the application of the simultaneous simulation of material flows and energy flows. This assumption is supported by the findings of a systematic review which showed great diversity in earlier published case studies. Yet, other existing procedure models provide little advice regarding the manifestations of specific details of a simulation study. This paper presents a novel procedure model that is meant to increase the efficiency in simulation projects by providing detailed and consistent guidance for design choices in a simulation study. Selected results of its application are shown exemplarily.
The expansion of patient derived stem cells requires adaptive processing protocols that consider the growth behavior. In order to minimize human errors and enhance reproducibility, the industry moves towards automated...
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The expansion of patient derived stem cells requires adaptive processing protocols that consider the growth behavior. In order to minimize human errors and enhance reproducibility, the industry moves towards automated platforms. This bears several challenges for a control software, such as coping with non-deterministic processes and the prevalent heterogeneity of device interfaces. We have developed a service-oriented approach to meet the demand for flexibility while at the same time giving maximum control over data and devices. Hardware modules are integrated via agents into the control software following a plug-and-produce approach. This generic software is also easily adaptable for other applications.
In car-body production, the fixtures used for fixing the car-body panels during the joining pro-cesses predominantly consist of rigid constructions that require a time-consuming manual set-up process. To automate the ...
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In car-body production, the fixtures used for fixing the car-body panels during the joining pro-cesses predominantly consist of rigid constructions that require a time-consuming manual set-up process. To automate the adjustment process and reduce ramp up times, different adjustment modules have been developed at the fraunhofer IWU in order to meet specific requirements. Because of high quality requirements, produced components will be checked against an adjustment database. The exactly positioning for each clamping point will be derived, with the aid of mathematical algorithms and modern methods of artificial intelligence, based on measured values and the knowledge of the template technicians.
In fine blanking the sheared edge’s quality is of major importance. As the sheared edge needs to transmit process forces and precisely align parts, attributes like die rolls, tears and tear-offs need to be eliminated...
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In fine blanking the sheared edge’s quality is of major importance. As the sheared edge needs to transmit process forces and precisely align parts, attributes like die rolls, tears and tear-offs need to be eliminated. Currently, these attributes are manually determined at the end of the process chain, which makes a complete correlation between influencing factors and the attributes hardly possible. If it would be possible to create a real-time evaluation of the attributes, not only unknown correlations would be found, also an instant process adaption could be made, optimizing the quality of the sheared edge. Therefore, this contribution focusses on the development of an edge computing approach.
Machining independently of mechanical material properties like hardness or high temperature strength is one mayor advantage of the electrochemical machining process (ECM). Additionally, high material removal rates can...
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Machining independently of mechanical material properties like hardness or high temperature strength is one mayor advantage of the electrochemical machining process (ECM). Additionally, high material removal rates can be achieved in combination with best surface integrities. Nevertheless, one limiting factor in the resulting surface integrity can be a significantly varying dissolution rate of material phases in a multi phase material during ECM. These differences in the dissolution rates determine the surface topography as well as the achievable surface roughness. However, this behavior cannot be forecasted up to now. For that reason, this paper presents a model for the prediction of the microstructure evolution as well as simulation results regarding the influence of the electrochemical machining process on resulting surface topography for the ferritic perlitic steel 42CrMo4 in a passivating electrolyte system. With the help of the model, the evolution of surface topography can be predicted and will be analyzed for different process parameters and various initial microstructures.
Simulation in electrochemical machining (ECM) offers the capability to distinctly reduce time and costs of the design process and, thereby, increase the economic potential of the manufacturing technology. In recent ye...
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Simulation in electrochemical machining (ECM) offers the capability to distinctly reduce time and costs of the design process and, thereby, increase the economic potential of the manufacturing technology. In recent years, different models for the simulation of ECM with direct current (DC-ECM) have been introduced and successfully applied to varying geometries. Furthermore, first approaches to model the effect of ECM with pulsed current have been presented. However, state of the art machinetools additionally apply an oscillation of the cathode to further improve surface quality and machining precision. To date there exists no validated model for this precise ECM (PECM) process. Therefore, this paper outlines the challenges emerging from considering cathode oscillation in ECM simulation models. Based on an overview of existing models for ECM with pulsed current, conclusions are drawn which concepts can be adopted for the modeling of precise ECM and which phenomena require the introduction of new approaches. Lastly, a model for the simulation of precise ECM is presented. This model accounts for the flow field of the electrolyte, the evolution of temperature in the machining gap as well as the resulting electrical field and finally the material removal.
Due to the increasing demand for flexible and low-cost production, manufacturing solutions involving human robot interaction have become much sought-after. Robotic manufacturers meet the demand with a rising number of...
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Due to the increasing demand for flexible and low-cost production, manufacturing solutions involving human robot interaction have become much sought-after. Robotic manufacturers meet the demand with a rising number of low cost robots specifically designed around safety and usability. However, the programming is still based on a tool centric teach-in. This paper discusses an affordance based approach for process programming in industrial manufacturing. Using low level feature detection and a consecutive evaluation, a fast programming method for industrial applications is presented. The paper presents the concept and a prototypic implementation for a welding process. Using the affordance detection, the system is able to identify relevant seams based on an image of the work space. The identified seams are then presented to the user for review with the means of augmented reality. Lastly, the system derives a welding program based on the detected seams. First experiments show promising results concerning programming speed and path accuracy for different work piece shapes and task definitions. Finally, based on the experience gained with the prototype, the outlook discusses the possibilities and further fields for future work.
The use of industrial robots within assembly workstations where human and robot should be able to collaborate or even cooperate involve high safety requirements. One out of four possibilities outlined in the current t...
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The use of industrial robots within assembly workstations where human and robot should be able to collaborate or even cooperate involve high safety requirements. One out of four possibilities outlined in the current technical specification ISO/TS 15066 for ensuring safety is speed and separation monitoring. Here the robot motion speed in- or decreases dynamically depending on the distance between operator and robot. This paper introduces an approach of a speed and separation monitoring system with the help of a time of flight sensing. After introducing this safety ensuring method, a Microsoft Kinect V2 is used to continuously detect human worker within a shared workspace. With the help of the robots joint angles from the robot control it is possible to compute the distances between all robot joints and the human worker. The shortest distance, which is at the same the critical distance time, is determined and as a consequence the velocity and acceleration values of the robot were set to safe values according to ISO/TS 15066. As it is not necessary to visually detect also the robot, but only human workers, this approach is very resilient. Afterwards the introduced setup is tested by a real detected human in front of a Kinect and a simulated industrial robot (Universal Robot UR5) in the robot operating system ROS. Measurements show that depending on the position of the worker the robots speed adapts to recommended safety values up to a complete halt if necessary. Conclusively all results are discussed and an outlook for possible fields of applications is given.
Due to the increased digital networking of machines and systems in the production area, large datasets are generated. In addition, more external sensors are installed at production systems to acquire data for producti...
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