3ddi have many years experience helping companies improve production efficiency through innovative special purpose machine design & production engineering. With our extensive experience working with production companies, we can also design and create jigs and fixtures that will vastly improve production efficiency and profitability.
We Provided a bespoke design service for this client, a leading glass product manufacturer. This machine progressively grinds and polishes flats on glass components mounted in vacuum chucks rotating below 8 fully adjustable grinding units. This machine is hydraulically and pneumatically operated with complex mechanisms for raising and rotating the vacuum chucks during the grinding process. All part drawings and data supplied ready for manufacture and assembly at their facility in Scotland.
Design of fully automated detector assembly machine for Manchester University for hign volume production
Working with the department of high energy physics at Manchester University developing a fully automated machine for the assembly and wiring of the SuperNEMO particle physics detector cell assemblies.
50 micron stainless steel wire is tensioned and clamped between 2 cells 3m apart. Some 20,000 of these assemblies will be required for the final detector.
Wire clamping mechanism. Simultaneously clamps 10x 50 micron wires to cell assemblies.
Wire is driven through stainless steel rollers by stepper motors and tensioned via a spring arm mechanism.