Constraints and Modifications
Unlike Hong Kong, some cities in mainland China still supported by the high labor-intensive manufacturing industry, however, this situation would be changed in the coming decade. As the Chinese government implement the reform policy of industry called “Industry 4.0”, which means the manufacturing industry would rapidly transform to semi-automation and full automation age. Therefore, the technologies of computer control and intelligent system may widely use in the future. However, techniques from foreign countries would not easily spread into China, Hong Kong becomes the platform of high technologies inter flow between western countries and China. It could be grateful if we grasp this golden opportunity.
Unlike Hong Kong, some cities in mainland China still supported by the high labor-intensive manufacturing industry, however, this situation would be changed in the coming decade. As the Chinese government implement the reform policy of industry called “Industry 4.0”, which means the manufacturing industry would rapidly transform to semi-automation and full automation age. Therefore, the technologies of computer control and intelligent system may widely use in the future. However, techniques from foreign countries would not easily spread into China, Hong Kong becomes the platform of high technologies inter flow between western countries and China. It could be grateful if we grasp this golden opportunity.
Difference between Conceptual Design and Final Product
The main difference of the conceptual design and the final product is the details and supporting included, in terms of conceptual design, many design detail is neglected like mounting of each part, dimensional difference of the conceptual parts and manufactured parts from SMC and other company leads to feasibility of the conceptual designs.
For example, in the previous session we had mentioned, conceptual designs had always divided into three parts, upper, middle, lower part, this action allows us to consolidate our design easier, give us a clear approach on researching on internet and find appropriate ready-make component from SMC. From the conceptual design to final product, the component need to be mount securely and strong enough to withstand repetitive production, meanwhile, the mounting design should be slightly flexible in order to compensate human error in any manufacturing process in case is needed.
The red spot on graph above shows a small amendment to the final product, it is aluminium angle mounting for the platform connecting to the profile, can adjust the Y axis direction to fit the gripping system, the cylinder can be mounted on profile directly by screws and nuts, however, we found out that the screws does not have the size we required, which is not long enough for us to mount the cylinder, thus, we choose to have remedy action to fix it.
Moving on to the dimensional difference of the conceptual design and the manufactured parts from SMC and other company leads to feasibility of the conceptual designs, on the lower left hand graph showing our concept design which is using four small cylinders to push a platform act as a Z axis movement, if practically we are using this design, cylinders will be very difficult to synchronize the movement as well as the mounting method of cylinders, works will be much more duplicated and troublesome. After our research on SMC catalog, we found a cylinder which suits our conceptual design, and we take it as our Z axis movement system to perform our whole preferred tasks. In this case, the size comparatively speaking, is smaller, also cheaper in this design production, moreover, laborious be saved for another process, which means the project can be runned faster.
The main difference of the conceptual design and the final product is the details and supporting included, in terms of conceptual design, many design detail is neglected like mounting of each part, dimensional difference of the conceptual parts and manufactured parts from SMC and other company leads to feasibility of the conceptual designs.
For example, in the previous session we had mentioned, conceptual designs had always divided into three parts, upper, middle, lower part, this action allows us to consolidate our design easier, give us a clear approach on researching on internet and find appropriate ready-make component from SMC. From the conceptual design to final product, the component need to be mount securely and strong enough to withstand repetitive production, meanwhile, the mounting design should be slightly flexible in order to compensate human error in any manufacturing process in case is needed.
The red spot on graph above shows a small amendment to the final product, it is aluminium angle mounting for the platform connecting to the profile, can adjust the Y axis direction to fit the gripping system, the cylinder can be mounted on profile directly by screws and nuts, however, we found out that the screws does not have the size we required, which is not long enough for us to mount the cylinder, thus, we choose to have remedy action to fix it.
Moving on to the dimensional difference of the conceptual design and the manufactured parts from SMC and other company leads to feasibility of the conceptual designs, on the lower left hand graph showing our concept design which is using four small cylinders to push a platform act as a Z axis movement, if practically we are using this design, cylinders will be very difficult to synchronize the movement as well as the mounting method of cylinders, works will be much more duplicated and troublesome. After our research on SMC catalog, we found a cylinder which suits our conceptual design, and we take it as our Z axis movement system to perform our whole preferred tasks. In this case, the size comparatively speaking, is smaller, also cheaper in this design production, moreover, laborious be saved for another process, which means the project can be runned faster.
Future Development
Since our project is a work-integrated education(WIE) project, we still have two weeks to further improve our design, to amend the small parts, may be machine slightly to improve the accuracy of the designed component, to fix the instability of the system to achieve better performance, we are looking forward to any improvement we can going make, to satisfy our customer as well as improve our critical thinking skills, to think from different aspects, how to balance cost, stability, performance, outlook.
Since our project is a work-integrated education(WIE) project, we still have two weeks to further improve our design, to amend the small parts, may be machine slightly to improve the accuracy of the designed component, to fix the instability of the system to achieve better performance, we are looking forward to any improvement we can going make, to satisfy our customer as well as improve our critical thinking skills, to think from different aspects, how to balance cost, stability, performance, outlook.