Additional axis studies to improve productivity

Introduction

In recent year, due to the rise in the minimum wage, productivity has become an important factor in industrial field. Productivity(cycle time) is the starting point and goal of this project. To increase productivity, we tried to focus 2 point. Fisrt point is Research to reduce the thickness of additional axis. Second point is reducing cycle time by vibration control.



Research Territories

(1) Reducing the thickness of additional axis

To improve productivity, cycle time is important factor. Espectially in the press process, the press-open hight is an important factor in determining the cycle time. This is the goal of this project. Reducing the thickness of additional axis reduces the press-open hight and this causes a decrease in cycle time.



(2) Reducing cycle time by vibration control

As same as (1) project goal, this research is also focused on productivity. In this research, Reducing vibration is the goal. In order to reduce the vibration, we used the input-shaping method, which is a kind of feed-forward control.