There has always been a need for motion design in the packaging machine industry because there has long been a requirement to mechanically move, fold, tuck, lift, twist, transfer or in some form manipulate both product and packaging to form a package. As soon as something moves in machinery, then a series of motions must be weaved together.
Any good engineer should know that if bad motion design is incorporated into packaging machinery mechanisms, servos or cams, the machinery will probably jam, need upkeep, not run as quick, be noisier and not have longevity. Nonetheless with superior motion design, the same machine can be fully changed into a highly efficient, dependable fast, quiet and durable machine.
The SAME physical machine, but one with DIFFERENT motion design can give a seriously different performance.
What is good motion design and bad motion design for an individual axis? Is it low peak velocity, low peak acceleration, motion continuity or low harmonic content? What is the right way to merge all the individual motions together? Which mechanism are you able to afford to accelerate more? How closely can the motions overlap?
PSMotion have created MechDesigner software to allow you smoothly design all of the motions AND mechanisms in one application and simulate them all, running and synchronized exactly like the proposed machinery.
It is now that, the value of MechDesigner's actual time inverse kinematics capability is also obviously evident. It is only by being able to use inverse kinematics and by being able to watch, edit and design the motions at the tooling, that you are able to extort the best out of the motion design process.
MechDesigner even lets you effortlessly alter motion design 'on-the-fly ' so that you can achieve the best machine, mechanism and motion design you need. What machine design business doesn't want that?
MechDesigner: Cad, Designed to Move.
Any good engineer should know that if bad motion design is incorporated into packaging machinery mechanisms, servos or cams, the machinery will probably jam, need upkeep, not run as quick, be noisier and not have longevity. Nonetheless with superior motion design, the same machine can be fully changed into a highly efficient, dependable fast, quiet and durable machine.
The SAME physical machine, but one with DIFFERENT motion design can give a seriously different performance.
What is good motion design and bad motion design for an individual axis? Is it low peak velocity, low peak acceleration, motion continuity or low harmonic content? What is the right way to merge all the individual motions together? Which mechanism are you able to afford to accelerate more? How closely can the motions overlap?
PSMotion have created MechDesigner software to allow you smoothly design all of the motions AND mechanisms in one application and simulate them all, running and synchronized exactly like the proposed machinery.
It is now that, the value of MechDesigner's actual time inverse kinematics capability is also obviously evident. It is only by being able to use inverse kinematics and by being able to watch, edit and design the motions at the tooling, that you are able to extort the best out of the motion design process.
MechDesigner even lets you effortlessly alter motion design 'on-the-fly ' so that you can achieve the best machine, mechanism and motion design you need. What machine design business doesn't want that?
MechDesigner: Cad, Designed to Move.
About the Author:
Dr Kevin Stamp is the Technical Director of PSMotion L.T.D who concentrate on the creation of special purpose machines and in the creation of machine design software, namely MechDesigner. Kevin is an engineer and BSc in Mechanical Engineering with a PhD in High Speed Packaging Machine Design. He was an engineer in the British Merchant Navy and spent fifteen years employed by Unilever in the United Kingdom, India and United States of America. PSMotion was created in 2004.
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