StirlingMachine
Aluminum
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2015
Hi folks, looking for some advice. I'm about to start on a very large (for me) job of 3400 parts. The cycle time is about 5.5-6 minutes and I need to get them through one machine in about a month (my other machine will be running the mating parts). There's not much wiggle room for wasted time there. I ran a test batch of 60 for the company doing a single piece flow and I lost about 1.5-2 minutes per cycle to handling. Machine is a Speedio S700 with an A axis rotary. My plan is to make a trunnion table and load twelve parts per side, on two pallets per side. My hope is to use 5th axis rock lock bases to quick change the pallets. But I'm curious about peoples experience doing that. I've gotten the impression that maybe they're not designed to be taken on and off constantly. My reasoning for using them is that they're pretty low profile so I can maintain decent Z axis clearance as my gage length is already getting crunched, and also they're pretty inexpensive. But if folks have better options I'd be curious to hear it.
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