This MQP has two goals that aim to show the feasibility of automating CNC maintenance tasks for General Electric Aviation. The first goal was to design a system capable of changing used end mills within a tool holder used by CNC machines. A process using an industrial arm owned by GE was created capable of obtaining this goal with reasonable constraints. The second goal was to create a method to automatically keep track of the location of all tool holders as well as keep a log of all jobs on which they have been used. GE currently does not keep track of their tool holders in any way which causes problems when a one becomes defective. An RFID solution was designed and implemented to keep track of any tool holder GE wants.

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Creator

• Wheeler, Ryan Christopher
• Willcox, Eric N
• Zolotykh, Sergey

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042914-220448

Advisor

• Putnam, Craig B.
• Lai, Lifeng
• Nestinger, Stephen

Year

• 2014

Sponsor

• General Electric Aviation

Date created

• 2014-04-29

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright