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Achieving precision assembly.


ACHIEVING PRECISION ASSEMBLY Rather than relying on, say, hydraulic force for assembly, achieving linear pressing force through driving a ballscrew with a servomotor ser·vo·mo·tor  
n.
A motor that controls the action of the mechanical device in a servomechanism.



[French servomoteur : Latin servus, slave + French moteur, motor
 is more accurate and controllable, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the people at Promess Inc. (www.promessinc.com; Brighton, MI). They've developed two more Electro-Mechanical Assembly Presses, one that provides 200 N of force and the other up to 1 kN. Monitoring and control can be performed via encoders and CNC (Computerized Numerical Control) See numerical control.

CNC - Collaborative Networked Communication
; additional sensors
  • Thermocouple
  • RTD - Resistance Temperature Detector or Resistance thermometer or Pt100
  • Microphone
  • Hydrophones
  • Seismometers
  • Photoresistor
  • Phototransistor
  • Infrared thermometer
  • Multi-User Multimodal Tabletop Interaction
  • Cationic Sensor
 (e.g., load cells; position probes) can help create an intelligent assembly system.

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Title Annotation:OBJECTS OF INTEREST; Electro-Mechanical Assembly Presses
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Publication:Automotive Design & Production
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Date:Aug 1, 2006
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