Separeringsmodul
In cooperation with the Gislaved company Lerocon AB [1], a separation module wasdesigned as a further supplement to the Module System. The aim of theprojectimplementation was that the separation module could be flexible enough to feed themetal pieces, screws, nuts and other items with large variations of size, appearance andmaterial 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 withautomation of the lineoperations. The module feeds the details such as screws, nuts, washersand 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 isimportant for the user that the detail-orientation is right after the separation module, whichmeans that all the pieces witch aren´t are fed back in return.For companies and industries in lineoperations that can be made more efficient withautomation, are production flow an important watchword. The company's various "stations" inthe line can not afford time delays from the previous processes in which this leads to greateconomic losses for the company. Thus, it is very important for our separation module that theretail flow is evenly to minimize time delays.The projectstructure is divided into three phases. The first part focused on studying andinformation retrieval of pre-existing separation modules to get a better idea of the features. Inthe second stage possible solutions and ideas where presented, and then evaluated, with amore transparent 3D model developed in CATIA V5 R18 [2] - [4]. The last phase of theproject consisted of building a mechanical model to evaluate and test the critical parts of theconstruction.