AbstractThis master thesis was performed at Scania transmission department in Södertälje, where the manufacturing of gears is done. Today a large amount of manual handling is performed between the Machining and the hardening process. Most of the manual handling is done at the heat treatment department. The purpose of this master thesis is to give a suggestion on how to reduce or eliminate the manual handling at the heat treatment department. The possibility to use the same packaging throughout the processes will also be investigated.

AbstractThis master thesis was performed at Scania transmission department in Södertälje, where the manufacturing of gears is done. Today a large amount of manual handling is performed between the Machining and the hardening process. Most of the manual handling is done at the heat treatment department. The purpose of this master thesis is to give a suggestion on how to reduce or eliminate the manual handling at the heat treatment department. The possibility to use the same packaging throughout the processes will also be investigated.

AbstractThis master thesis was performed at Scania transmission department in Södertälje, where the manufacturing of gears is done. Today a large amount of manual handling is performed between the Machining and the hardening process. Most of the manual handling is done at the heat treatment department. The purpose of this master thesis is to give a suggestion on how to reduce or eliminate the manual handling at the heat treatment department. The possibility to use the same packaging throughout the processes will also be investigated.

AbstractThis master thesis was performed at Scania transmission department in Södertälje, where the manufacturing of gears is done. Today a large amount of manual handling is performed between the Machining and the hardening process. Most of the manual handling is done at the heat treatment department. The purpose of this master thesis is to give a suggestion on how to reduce or eliminate the manual handling at the heat treatment department. The possibility to use the same packaging throughout the processes will also be investigated.

This thesis was conducted at Linköping University and Saab Aerostructures DPS, Linköping, and focuses on the possibilities of flexible fixturing in Machining applications. The thesis is part of the research project "Koofix", which is collaboration between Linköping University and a number of companies.The thesis is aimed towards small batch production which, for Saab Aerostructures DPS, means diverse part geometry and that parts are manufactured in very small numbers, sometimes just one piece. The result of this is that expensive dedicated fixtures are made for most parts. By introducing more flexible fixturing methods to this kind of production the cost of fixtures and tooling will be reduced, and make the production more efficient.New flexible fixturing methods has been presented and evaluated through the thesis, which has resulted in three different concepts. These concepts have been the result of literature screening and study of current manufacturing process at Saab Aerostructures DPS.

This thesis has been performed at International Aluminum Casting AB in Eskilstuna,Sweden.International Aluminum Casting is currently working with a number of improvementsin their production in order to achieve their vision of being the leading aluminum foundry in Sweden. As a step in their improvement efforts, focus was directed ondeveloping the company's fixtures for Machining.Efforts were focused on two main objectives: to develop a complete proposal on afixture which leads to a more rational use of an assigned part and also form general design advice for development of fixtures in the future.During the work progress, discussions have been made with experts at International Aluminum Casting within the field of fixture design. The objective was to obtain sufficient knowledge about the underlying problems with the current fixture for the part. At this stage of the thesis, a number of essential criteria for fixture design were produced. Information and inspiration were obtained by examining the company?s currently developed fixtures.After gathering the necessary information the process of developing three different fixture concepts started.

This thesis was conducted at Linköping University and SAAB Aerostructures, Linköping, and focuses on the automation of flexible fixturing in Machining applications. At Linköping University a project called "Koofix" is conducted with support from Strategiska stiftelsen and several manufacturing industries including SAAB Aerostructures. The purpose of this project is to develop a more cost-effective, flexible, technique for fixation of workpieces during processing and assembly.Fixtures are an important part during the Machining process, especially if you process the parts with high accuracy. Today a large number of fixtures are used at SAAB and they would prefer to reduce the number of fixtures by using flexible fixtures instead. SAAB uses one fixture for each article and this result in a high fixture cost and it also takes time to design and construct a new fixture.There are several advantages with using a flexible fixture such as that you can process workpieces with different length, height and thickness in the same fixture.

År 2007 projekterade Uddeholm Machining AB inför stora investeringar som en del i ett led att öka produktionen. En grupp bestående av personal från företaget tillsattes för att ta fram förslag på en omplacering av maskiner i befintliga lokaler samt förslag på utbyggnader, då begränsningen i lokalyta krävde en förändring för att möjliggöra att få in fler och större maskiner i verkstaden. Dock glömdes plats för kontroll och packning/avsändning att tas med i ritningarna samt i ansökan om investeringskapital från ägarna. Syftet med detta examensarbete var att skapa en detaljutformad huvudlayout över verkstaden samt en detaljutformning av arbetsplatserna i samråd med personalen. Målet var att utforma en huvudlayout och arbetsplatser som är produktionseffektiva samt skapar en bra och säker arbetsmiljö för personalen.

SECO Tools manufactures tool inserts for all types of metal cutting Machining. (Ti,W)C is a common raw material used in the production. At arrival, the material (Ti,W)C is always analyzed. Titanium has previously been analysed with x-ray fluorescence spectrometry, but as the calibration has previously been performed with two different types of titanium (rutile and metallic titanium), the results has differed. Because of that, this thesis project has been devoted to analyze titanium, to find the best titanium compound for producing standards.The work has been performed using literature studies and many experiments in the laboratories at SECO Tools inFagersta,Sweden.

Detta examensarbete har utförts på uppdrag av Koenigsegg Automotive AB, som utvecklar, tillverkar och säljer högpresterande sportbilar. Företaget erbjuder fälgar tillverkade helt i kolfiberkomposit, som ger betydande viktbesparingar i jämförelse med traditionella metallfälgar.Efter tillverkningen kräver fälgarna viss bearbetning vid anläggningsytan mellan fälg och däck. Syftet med examensarbetet har varit att undersöka möjligheten att utföra bearbetningen av fälgarna in-house i Ängelholm, och målet har varit att konstruera en maskin för detta ändamål.Projektet inleddes med en litteratursökning, där svårigheter och möjligheter gällande bearbetning av kolfiberkompositer undersöktes. Till följd av de undersökningar som gjordes, valdes bearbetningsmetoden svarvfräsning och ett antal konstuktionskoncept genererades. Genom ett antal utvärderingar utvecklades ett speciellt koncept vidare till ett komplett produktförslag.Produktförslaget är komplett med analyser, beräkningar samt tillverkningsunderlag, som ger uppdragsgivaren bättre insikt i sina möjligheter.

Ett av de vanligaste motiven till varför ett företag ska använda outsourcing är att det då kan fokusera verksamheten på kärnkompetenserna, de aktiviteter som bidrar mest till konkurrensfördelarna. De modeller som forskare skapat för outsourcingstrategier har överlag grundats på forskning om amerikanska och asiatiska bolag. Syftet med denna uppsats var därför att undersöka om det finns en relation mellan svenska tillverkande storföretags kärnkompetenser och outsourcingstrategin för tillverkningsprocesser. Vi utredde även om samma beslutsunderlag för outsourcing som presenteras i tre välkända forskningsmodeller används i praktiken på företagen. Vi har genomfört en litteraturstudie tillsammans med en kvalitativ studie där vi intervjuade representanter från verktygstillverkarna Atlas Copco Industriteknik och Sandvik Machining Solutions samt fordonstillverkaren Scania.

Trådgnistning (på engelska Wire Electrical Discharge Machining eller WEDM) är en termiskbearbetningsprocess för att med en trådelektrod skära i elektriskt ledande material. Metoden har teoretiskt sett många fördelar och relativt få nackdelar. Intervjuer i studien visar att trots detta så undviker flera industriföretag om möjligt denna process. Syftet med studien är att utifrån de teoretiska fördelarna som anges i litteraturen undersöka vad företag i Sverige anser vara de mest relevanta praktiska fördelarna med trådgnistning som bearbetningsprocess. En internetbaserad enkät har skickats ut och besvarats av 20 industriföretag runtom i Sverige.

Projektet ProFlexA syftar till att automatisera gjutgodsrensning av stålgjutgods vid lågavolymer genom att använda ny adaptiv teknik såsom flexibla fixturer och gripdon samtkraftstyrning. Projektet bedrivs av Linköpings Tekniska Högskola och Lunds TekniskaHögskola med stöd av tre gjuterier i Mellansverige samt systemintegratörer och leverantörer.Automatisering av gjutgodsresning har länge varit föremål för både forskning ochkommersiellt intresse. Det finns idag fungerande lösningar främst riktat mot aluminiumgodsoch högre produktvolymer.Syftet med examensarbetet var att undersöka huruvida Robotstudio, och mer specifikt desstilläggsmodul Machining, var lämpligt för användning vid gjutgodsrensing. För att detta skallvara möjligt på hårdare material krävs kraftstyrning, vilket finns som tillval i den tidigarenämnda tilläggsmodulen.För att ha möjlighet att testa Machiningmodulen och få en uppfattning om vad Robotstudio ärkapabelt till genomfördes först en självstudie av programmet. Som delmål för instuderingengenererades en visuell robotcell enligt ett av ProFlexA:s tidigare koncept förgjutgodsrensning.

Powder Metal (PM) gears are machine element components which operate under the same principle as conventional gears, but, due to their intrinsic material characteristic need to be designed slightly different, and its manufacturing process offers advantages previously unobtainable by conventional steel gear manufacturing methods. The use of PM in similar applications, such as synchronous hubs, makes them a suitable candidate for production in such material. The current master thesis work focuses on gear design using PM by utilizing finite element method (FEM) to reduce weight and inertia taking into account root bending strength and tooth deflection.First a topological optimization is used to determine feasible candidates for different web designs which have as objective to reduce volume, similar topologies were shown during different loading conditions; and hence, this topology was chosen as a suitable candidate. A shape optimization of the topological candidate was performed having as state variables root bending strength, independent for compressive and tensile side of the tooth loading; and tooth deflection, which in concept can be correlated to static transmission error (TE).Another aspect in this thesis analysed is the possibility to incorporate non-trochoid root geometry, a trochoid root is always present when Machining with a hob, into the gear root and hence reduce the stress concentration here. Due to the use of PM, a non-symmetric optimized root can be achieved and hence be optimizing compression and tension.Results showed significantly lower inertia, for example certain results showed 40% reduced when compared to solid gear, with adverse effects as increase in tooth deformation and increase in maximum principal stress.

AbstractThis is a thesis done in cooperation with the firm Somas and University of Karlstad. The project is an independent final examination part of the program in Innovation and DesignEngineering comprising 22.5 points, and performed by Mia Myrén Zreloff during spring term 2012. In parallel and collaboration, Fredrik Kjellin performs a similar job for the same company and with the same extent, but for the Program in Mechanical Engineering.The client and supervisor at the company have been Magnus Jansson and Anders Josefsson. At Karlstad University has technical supervisor been Hans Johansson, and in the design- and development process it was Monica Jakobsson. Examiner has been Fredrik Thuvander, professor in the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University.The mission has been to make a basis work for the company's own development and make a computational model to calculate, visualize and implement materials and other solutions in the manufacture of the company's ball valves.The project has undergone three major phases that included thorough study of the company, production, the problem and product.