Volume 114 (2024), Edition 05

Manufacturing of individualized products in small quantities combined with short innovation cycles poses challenges for production technology. Reconfigurable production systems with flexible functionality and technology can be part of the solution....

With direct trajectory generation on surfaces in numerical control (NC), the trajectory is generated by defining the free-form surface to be produced. The advantage is that there is no dicretization of the path during data transfer from Computer...

Industrial robots play a central role in the flexible automation of production systems. However, engineering such increasingly complex systems becomes more difficult by the use of specialized and often manufacturer-specific control and simulation...

Software sensors are becoming increasingly important in production and logistics, as they can solve complex measurement tasks and can merge measured variables from existing physical sensors. This article analyses and presents the potential for...

With increasing complexity of machine tools, virtual commissioning (VC) has been established as an essential part of the engineering process. To describe all the different machine variants virtually, the sub-models of the machine modules must be...

This paper introduces an innovative methodology for a chatter alert system that also enables the real-time utilization of simulated stability boundaries. Key components include the concurrent identification of cutting stiffness to enhance model...

Cutting tests on steel are used to demonstrate the improved stability of a tapered roller bearing spindle compared to a conventional spindle using a new fast measuring method.

Nowadays, the productivity of machining production processes is still significantly limited by dynamic process instabilities. An a priori determination of these limits enables a main time minimizing manufacturing process. However, conventional...

The introduction of electromechanical power steering in passenger cars enables increased energy efficiency and thus follows the global trend of developing efficient machines and systems. An application-specific design of ball screws enables the...

With the rising popularity of Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and Companion Specifications (CS), a universal understanding of OPC UA models becomes increasingly important. Thus, the OPC Foundation published a Best...

In this work, a machine learning model is trained on the basis of an autoencoder. The aim of the model is to recognise faulty cuts during laser cutting, as faulty cuts lead to high reject rates. The literature shows that it is possible to recognise...