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Monday, October 16, 2006
1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Developing Detailed Concepts for New Machine Designs
Alexander H. Slocum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This seminar will focus on helping machine designers to more rapidly develop detailed designs for machines. The format follows essentially a robust process for completing the detailed concept for a new machine so it can then be built and tested. The guiding example will be creation of a small desktop milling machine.

1:30-2:00	Building the team, machine specs (and constraints), schedule, and identifying dominant physics, risks, and countermeasures.
2:00-2:45	Review of fundamental principles and how they can relate to the design task at hand.
3:45-3:30	Developing strategies and detailed concepts driven by the constraints of the problem and available hardware.
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-5:00	Building the error budget for the machine and using it to help select concepts and components.
5:00-5:30	Selecting hardware and review of most common problems (cables, overconstrained bearings, bolt induced deformations)

 

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