Motion Design - Why It and Motion Design Tools Are Significant
There has long been a requirement for motion design in the packaging machinery industry because there has long been a need to mechanically move, fold, tuck, lift, twist, transfer or in some way mold both product and packaging to create a package. As soon as something moves in a machine, then numerous motions have to be merged together.
Any good engineer would know that if bad motion design is adopted into packaging machinery mechanisms, servos or cams, the machinery will probably jam, need more upkeep, not run as fast, be noisier and not have longevity. However , with excellent motion design, the same machine can be completely transformed into a highly efficient, dependable fast, quiet and lasting machine.
The SAME physical machine, but one with DIFFERENT motion design can give a significantly 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's the best way to weave all of the individual motions together? Which mechanism can you afford to accelerate more? How closely can the motions overlap?
PSMotion have created MechDesigner software to allow you efficiently design all of the motions AND mechanisms in one application and simulate them, running and synchronized exactly just like the planned machine.
It is now that, the value of MechDesigner's actual time inverse kinematics capability is also clearly obvious. 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 method.
MechDesigner even permits you to easily adjust motion design 'on-the-fly ' so that you can get the best machine, mechanism and motion design you require. What machine design business doesn't require that?
MechDesigner: Cad, Designed to Move.
Any good engineer would know that if bad motion design is adopted into packaging machinery mechanisms, servos or cams, the machinery will probably jam, need more upkeep, not run as fast, be noisier and not have longevity. However , with excellent motion design, the same machine can be completely transformed into a highly efficient, dependable fast, quiet and lasting machine.
The SAME physical machine, but one with DIFFERENT motion design can give a significantly 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's the best way to weave all of the individual motions together? Which mechanism can you afford to accelerate more? How closely can the motions overlap?
PSMotion have created MechDesigner software to allow you efficiently design all of the motions AND mechanisms in one application and simulate them, running and synchronized exactly just like the planned machine.
It is now that, the value of MechDesigner's actual time inverse kinematics capability is also clearly obvious. 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 method.
MechDesigner even permits you to easily adjust motion design 'on-the-fly ' so that you can get the best machine, mechanism and motion design you require. What machine design business doesn't require that?
MechDesigner: Cad, Designed to Move.
About the Author:
Dr Kevin Stamp is the Technical Director of PSMotion Limited who specialize in the building 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. PSMotion was started in 2004.
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