How Advanced Automated Machinery Dynamically Adjusts Speeds
In today’s competitive manufacturing landscape, producing components on a large scale—from thousands to millions of parts—is fundamental to industrial operations. Efficient manufacturing is crucial for economic viability and optimized throughput.
To achieve this, many facilities increasingly rely on advanced automated machinery that dynamically adjusts speeds along the tool path. This capability lets machines accelerate on straight sections and decelerate at corners, optimizing production time.
Variable speed motion is suitable for applications where precision is less critical, such as rough cutting with CNC machines where the exact surface finish is not a priority, or pick-and-place operations that require speed over precision.
However, many manufacturing processes rely heavily on constant-speed toolpath execution to meet specific quality metrics. Some of these include: consistent epoxy dispensing, better fusion in seam welding, and uniformity of laser energy deposition for glass scoring.
Other constant-speed manufacturing processes significantly benefit surface finish and form accuracy, including high-precision metal milling, grinding, waterjet cutting, and single-point diamond turning.
Skilled applied-scientists and developers have responded by developing new techniques and algorithms to optimize throughput in constant-speed operations, providing cutting-edge performance. These advancements allow easy integration and adaptation.
By adopting this technological innovation, manufacturers can significantly enhance their production capabilities, meeting current demands and preparing for future manufacturing challenges.
Optimized, Constant Speed Process Workflow
The integrated workflow provided by the new, optimized constant-speed process is the following easy-to-use procedure:
- Input the CAD drawing
- Input the contour displacement tolerance
- Configure the kinematic ability of the CNC machine tool
- Output the constant-velocity-ready G-code file
- Execute the G-code file on the CNC motion controller
This new constant speed process provides important advantages, for example:
- Fastest constant feed rate
- Least constant feed rate variation
- Better surface finish
- Easy creation of G-code part files
- Guaranteed part completion
The above graphic shows the Performance for Constant-Speed Laser-Scoring of an Eyeglass Part, showing the x-axis, y-axis, and the net constant commanded velocity generated from PolarisCAM 2D.
About Polaris Motion
Polaris Motion is a motion control company that has been designing and manufacturing high-performance motion control and data acquisition systems for some of the world’s most advanced applications since 1994. Polaris Motion’s areas of expertise include:
- Precision laser processing
- Multi-axis CNC machining
- Robot precision applications
- Single-point diamond turning
- Precision grinding
- Water jet cutting
- Semiconductor wafer manufacturing
- Metal additive manufacturing
- In-process quality assurance
- Vehicle test rigs
- Hardware in the loop (HWIL) test systems for aerospace sensors
They can help you with your specific requirements and custom electronics and software solutions are needed.
To request more information or a quotation for Polaris Motion products, contact IL Photonics.