Separeringsmodul

Sammanfattning: In cooperation with the Gislaved company Lerocon AB [1], a separation module was designed as a further supplement to the Module System. The aim of the projectimplementation was that the separation module could be flexible enough to feed the metal pieces, screws, nuts and other items with large variations of size, appearance and material composition. The module should also be cost effective to manufacture. A separation module is a design which is ment to streamline the work in industries with automation of the lineoperations. The module feeds the details such as screws, nuts, washers and pieces of metal in a continuous flow in which traps separate the details from each other. Traps may vary depending on the purpose and of the details that are fed. Perhaps it is important for the user that the detail-orientation is right after the separation module, which means that all the pieces witch aren´t are fed back in return. For companies and industries in lineoperations that can be made more efficient with automation, are production flow an important watchword. The company's various "stations" in the line can not afford time delays from the previous processes in which this leads to great economic losses for the company. Thus, it is very important for our separation module that the retail flow is evenly to minimize time delays. The projectstructure is divided into three phases. The first part focused on studying and information retrieval of pre-existing separation modules to get a better idea of the features. In the second stage possible solutions and ideas where presented, and then evaluated, with a more transparent 3D model developed in CATIA V5 R18 [2] - [4]. The last phase of the project consisted of building a mechanical model to evaluate and test the critical parts of the construction.