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Category: Applications

Special machines and custom projects

Transmission Test Stand

By Frank Posted on March 6, 2011 Posted in Applications, gauging, Vendors and Manufacturers Tagged with Automation Direct, gauging, Keyence, pressure testing, vendors

This small test stand was built in 2005 for Kiesler Automotive, a custom transmission builder in Maryville, Tennessee. After placing the transmission into the cradle and closing a couple of DeStaCo clamps by hand, a 2 hand anti-tiedown station is …

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Contact Lens Inspection

By Frank Posted on February 27, 2011 Posted in Pharmaceutical, Servos, vision Tagged with Animatics, Machine Vision, servo

This was a contact lens inspection station built in 2005 for Vistakon, a Florida company. It has 2 cameras mounted to X-Y-Z axes with similarly mounted backlighting below the moving pallet. Samples would be taken from the production lines and …

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Build your own Conveyor

By Frank Posted on February 21, 2011 Posted in Applications, Conveyors Tagged with conveyors, tools, welding

Usually it is not very economical to build your own conveyor but occasionally an application requires a product that is not readily available. There are quite a few companies that will build a custom conveyor for you but delivery time …

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Spotlight on Vision

By Frank Posted on February 16, 2011 Posted in Applications, vision Tagged with gauging, Machine Vision

In my previous life I spent about 30-40% of my time doing vision applications. Most of the jobs I did involved using “smart cameras” which are self-contained vision systems where the frame grabber circuitry, image processing and I/O are built …

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A Metalforming Application

By Frank Posted on February 6, 2011 Posted in Applications, Hydraulics, Metalforming Tagged with Hydraulic, Metal, Rollforming

I decided to write a little about my first metal-forming job after receiving an e-mail from a gentleman in India who has been in the metalforming business for 43 years (hello Ananth!) It reminded me of some of the good …

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A Funny Design Story: The Amazing Marker Cannon

By Frank Posted on February 1, 2011 Posted in Applications, Packaging

…It was amazing! The marker shot out of the end of the tube, all the way across the shop and shattered against the back wall!…

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Rocker Cover Gauging

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, LVDTs Tagged with gauging, LVDT

This is an application to determine whether a gasket is located properly in a rocker arm cover. 3 LVDTs were used to measure the outside edges of a plastic rocker arm cover establishing a plane. 4 additional LVDTs were then …

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Rubber Gasket Inspection

By Frank Posted on January 30, 2011 Posted in Applications, vision Tagged with Machine Vision, ultraviolet, vibratory bowls

When I used to do a lot of work for NAS in Knoxville we got a job to inspect rubber gaskets after they came out of the molding process. The gaskets were about 2-3 inches in diameter and were somewhat …

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