A high-output, automated machine assembles two components, contacting one component against carbide stops for locating purposes. The contact forces are sufficient to locally yield the material. This project entails the design of a linear cam mechanism that gently aligns this component on an existing station without causing any yielding. We created a dynamic simulation of two cam trains, which we used as a design basis after verification against measured data. As a sub-project, we redesigned one of the existing cams to reduce a large spike of acceleration at a deliberate impact that we noticed in our measured data.

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Creator

• Holmes, Peter Jackson
• Mayo, Joseph M.
• Downey, Matthias P.
• Wells, Christopher Roy

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-010710-091821

Advisor

• Norton, Robert L.

Year

• 2009

Center

• Gillette -Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• Gillette Company

Date created

• 2009-01-01

Emplacement

• Boston

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright