Development Of Linear Positioning Table For Drilling Machine

Abd Rahim, Abdul Fattah (2016) Development Of Linear Positioning Table For Drilling Machine. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Drilling operation is an operation which producing holes by bringing a rotating cutter into contact with the workpiece. Drilling operation commonly done in drill press however some of the time on mills or lathes. Drill presses come in several forms with the most commonly used ones being the bench-top model, the floor-standing model, the magnetic model and the radial model. Each model has its differences from the other, mostly in terms of power requirements, capacity, affordability and portability. Holding parts to be drilled is one of major problems faced by the students. If the material has many holes to be drilled, then the procedures adopted is marking out with a center punch, setting on machine (Drill Press Machine), and hold the workpiece. This will be time consuming and might be dangerous as the students need to hold the material themselves throughout the drilling process. This project presents an innovative linear positioning table to ease operator during drilling process. In addition, clamping system also will be provided which provides better rigidity and less movement of the workpiece during drilling process. Some toggle clamps are fixed on the table to securely hold the position of the part from moving throughout the machining cycle. Furthermore, this project also will be focused on how to make the drilling process can be done in one single clamping. A simple and economic design is proposed to develop this project which expected will shows a great time saving in the production. There are other similar linear sliding tables in use, but the main differences being in the intended purposes. None of the existing linear tables were designed for the use at drill press machine. The linear X-Y table presented in this thesis has a considerably larger workspace.

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