Being widely used in modern machinery and equipment, gears drive functions in transmitting motion and power at a specified gear ratio. Based on the general application of NC machining technology, it is increasingly important to realize the automatic production from the gear blanks to the finished gears for the high productivity and the stable product quality. Therefore the feeding and unloading robot is required to realize the material handling among the CNC machine tools for each process. According to the analysis of the typical processing technology and equipment of gears, the facility layout is designed and the productive tempo is calculated by using the simulation software ROBOGUIDE. And the comprehensive evaluation index is introduced to find out the better facility layout accordin to the given requirements. The automatic gear machining system is on exhibition in Shanghai-FANUC Robotics CO.,Ltd.
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