Design of automatic loading and unloading of workpiece system for HAAS CNC milling machine

Sivapragasam, Thiliban (2016) Design of automatic loading and unloading of workpiece system for HAAS CNC milling machine. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project report presents the work done on the design of automatic loading and unloading of work pieces system for HAAS VF-1 CNC Milling Machine. This CNC machine is currently being used at CNC Lab at Block B of Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, University Technical Malaysia Malacca (UTeM). However, this machine still uses human operator to load and unload the work pieces for the machine which are considered inefficient and also dangerous. The objective of this project is to select a suitable automatic system for loading and unloading work piece for HAAS CNC Milling Machine, to design a suitable gripper or tool for handling the work pieces for loading and unloading the CNC Machine and also to develop a soft prototype of the designed gripper or tool. In order to ensure the automatic loading and unloading process to occur without any error, a proper analysis and also comparison must be done in order to determine type of system to be used, types of tool to be used, type of power system to drive the system, also type of software to simulate the process. Flow chart of the methodology used for achieving all the project objectives are presented. Furthermore, a process simulation is done to represent the real life process of the improvise system, giving it a better look on how the system will look like. Besides that, an analysis on the selected tool given be carried out in order to determine the effectiveness and also the scale of safety of the tool. In order to do so, the force exerted by the work piece should be taken into consideration and also the lifting force required by the tool itself to lift the work piece.

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