Objective
In typical foundries, wooden patterns are used to produce sand moulds into which molten metal is poured in the manufacture of castings. With small batch production, and especially one-offs or prototypes, the cost of the pattern and the lead time for its manufacture far exceeds market needs. It is proposed to circumvent entirely the requirement for a pattern by machining moulds directly in blocks of bonded sand using a heavy duty robot. Computer-aided machining (CAD/CAM) software would be used to impart continuous tooling path motion to a high-speed spindle mounted on the robot arm, which would thus operate as a large-scale but low-cost, unmanned, universal milling machine. The specific objectives are to: - demonstrate the feasibility of this approach as a generic machining technique - determine the optimum operating procedures and parameters through experimental evaluation of the effect of changes in process variables - validate the procedure on a representative range of mould materials and cast component sizes and geometries. Lead times for one-off castings could be reduced by 50-80% and costs reduced by up to 50%. Attendant benefits associated with improved quality, accuracy and flexibility could improve the overall production efficiency of finished goods substantially, with future benefits likely to accrue as a consequence of potential design interaction between casting producer and user.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering manufacturing engineering subtractive manufacturing
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
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Coordinator
S31 7JL Un Sheffield
United Kingdom
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