Every year the WPI Manufacturing Laboratories manufactures medallions for Alumni weekend. The current system requires many valuable man hours to function. Creating an automated system to laser mark the medallions would improve the current medallion production system. The goal of this MQP is to use Axiomatic Design to design a mechanical system that would enable automated laser marking to be done safely inside the CNC Machine tool that finishes the medallions. Several candidate designs were evaluated based on their information content and uncertainty. Using a single slide and a galvo laser significantly reduced the information content of the system. This system will be adequate for marking and engraving. Thus it is potential starting point for integrating other manufacturing process.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Resor, Edmund Christopher

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-052615-142145

Advisor

• Bergstrom, Torbjorn Stansen

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-05-26

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright