Glide线的新传送带设计方法

Unable to get the conveyors it needed to address customer demands, a system integrator sets out to address the problem on its own and ends up creating not only a new conveyor product, but a different way of designing and manufacturing conveyor lines.

滑行线4链皮带样式输送机。
滑行线4链皮带样式输送机。

作为一个自动化系统集成商,专注于为食品和眼镜镜业设计和建造输送机系统,以及相关的控制面板和设备,NCC自动化系统has more than 25 years of experience developing conveying systems for food processing, packaging line integration, and optical automation. Every business encounters difficulties when it comes to delivering services for its customers, but NCC Automated Systems found itself encountering a specific problem again and again.

NCC Automated Systems总裁Kevin Mauger说:“我们无法获得基于集会的输送机的零件或交付。”“最重要的是,我们通常无法得到答案,只是与整个伴侣挣扎。因此,在2012年初,我们完成了研究,并着手建立这种输送机系统。”

同年晚些时候,NCC自动化系统完成了其第一个原型。当时,一名客户进来访问该公司进行一个完全不同的项目,并看到了原型。莫格说:“他问我们从哪里得到的[原型],我们告诉他我们做到了。”与NCC自动化系统相同的挫败感和交付面临的挫败感,该客户“迅速订购了原型系统的大量100款”。

NCC自动化系统创建的原型已成为滑行线多链和托盘处理系统。

Mauger指出,滑行线传送带本身在输送机市场中并不是特别独特。Mauger说,与Glide线的区别最大的是其软件设计工具和数字制造过程,它允许Glide线提供许多标准配置,其中超过75,000。他补充说:“此外,即使设计超出了配置器可以创建的东西,我们也很灵活,并且愿意做独特的事情。”

The SolidWorks configuration tool, which Mauger contends is Glide-Line’s most unique aspect, has a “built-in design table that allows users to make changes live—called in context—and gives them updated pricing and part numbers within the SolidWorks program,” he says.

By giving users a basic model that can be configured on the fly in the context of the model, the SolidWorks configuration tool saves a lot of time versus typical online 3D CAD configurators that “require a lot of downloading, inserting data, and repeating steps over and over again when changes have to be made,” Mauger says. “Engineers love this aspect of the system, especially the fact that when they've designed their unit with the configurator, it is completely spec’d out down to the part number. We then use this part number to enter into our manufacturing system and don’t even need to go through any design process internally. We can release the order to the shop in minutes. This is a very unique part of our offering. I don’t know anybody else who does it this way.”

当被问及生产Glide线产品的制造过程时,Mauger说,许多项目是使用5轴水夹水的水夹,以便我们可以提供客户指定的配置。如果他们需要235毫米托盘而不是标准的240mm托盘,那不是问题。软件设计工具与我们的制造过程的集成使我们能够生产任何宽度,任何数量链等的传送带系统。”

Though Mauger contends that the software configurator is the biggest differentiator for Glide-Line in the conveyor market, other aspects that help set Glide-Line apart include:
• Service work, including a belt change, can be done from above without removing fasteners;
•可以在几分钟内换带;
• Use of T5 timing belts with steel tension members for positive drive and durability;
•所有滚动元件均受支撑精确的滚珠轴承;和
•客户可以选择使用24V直流直接驱动器来消除变速箱的使用和连接轴,以提高设计灵活性

Mauger说:“出售给议会市场是一个挑战,因为客户不像食品和光学行业那样知道我们的名字和声誉,并且一些建筑商也担心NCC是一家集成商。”“但是他们当然不必为此担心。Glide-Line是一个不同的业务部门,我们对尝试成为该市场的集成商没有兴趣。”

Mauger补充说,Glide线的政策绝不向Glide-Line业务部门服务的最终用户出售。他说:“我们的目标是找到可以为谁提供输送机和设备的合作伙伴,并允许他们处理集成。”“凭借我们的集成根源,我们了解了系统集成商客户的需求,他们的需求以及成为一个好的供应商所需的内容。”

Editor’s Note: Glide-Line will be exhibiting at The Automation Conference 2014. To learn more about the conference and register, visit:www.theautomationconference.com

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