Design of dynamically controlled desktop fiber accumulator with tension feedback as part of smart manufacturing educational kit

In the age of automation and computation, smart manufacturing is being adopted by manufacturing industries because its data-rich approach enables production of higher-quality goods at reduced costs. However, there is an associated learning curve for operators and manufacturing professionals to transition from the use of simply automated machines, since the 1970s, to the smart, interconnected machines today. Therefore, the objective of this research is to develop a desktop fiber accumulator with a dynamic controller that monitors fiber tension as part of a smart manufacturing educational kit. A Winding Loop Material Accumulator, WiLMA, is designed and tested as a machine whose main purpose is to be an effective buffer for the difference in speed between the machine upstream outputting fiber at a constant rate and the machine downstream intaking fiber at a variable rate without damaging or over-tensioning the fiber.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Lu, Shirley Suet-Ning.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Brian W. Anthony.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127125

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127125