Kennametal
Industries Inc.
180 Penniman Road
Orwell, OH 44076
Phone: 440-437-5151
Fax: 440-4374289
Insert Handling Improvement - Myford Machine Area
Fall 2002
Project Objective
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Insert Handling Improvement - Myford Machine Area Project was sponsored by
Kennametal Industries.
The objective of the project was to automate the loading and
unloading of inserts on the Myford Machine. The Myford
Machine performs a periphery grinding operation on circular
inserts and inserts with special geometries.
Automating the loading and unloading of the inserts shall
increase productivity and decrease scrap. Kennametal determined that a large
percentage of scrap in the Kenloc inert production
line were caused by the inserts coming into contact with one
another. These inserts are highly surface critical
because they are sold to various customers internationally
where the inserts are used in cutting processes.
The engineering team at The Pennsylvania State University was contracted through The Learning Factory to automate the loading and unloading methods that would eliminate the current bottleneck and operator variability, thereby increasing productivity and reducing the amount of defects in the inserts. | |
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