Tol-O-Matic System Compatibility - Industrial and Bearing Supplies

APPLICATIONS
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SYSTEM
APPLICATION:
Furniture Gluing
Tol-O-Matic System
Components:
• SSC2 two-axis controller
• Two MSD microstepping
drives
• MRS342 stepper motor
• MRS233 stepper motor
• B3S15 screw-drive
recirculating ball bearing
rodless actuator
• BCS10 screw-drive
rodless actuator
• BC210 pneumatic
rodless actuator
• Motor couplings, motor
adapters and cabling
automatically selected
using the Tol-O-Motion
sizing and selection
software configuration
generator
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION:
A manufacturer of patio furniture needs to lay a bead of glue in various patterns as one part of a
subassembly process to be performed on a single panel as it passes through the machine.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
• Two-axis control with circular and linear interpolation for glue head positioning
• Ability to quickly and easily define glue pattern
• Glue head feed
• Constant move velocity/glue bead diameter
• Communication to PLC
TOL-O-MATIC SOLUTION:
The SSC2 two-axis controller, using the Tol-O-Motion SSC mouse teach mode, allowed the user to
define arcs and line segments with the click of a mouse. With only moderate to low speed
requirements for positioning the gluing head, this application was solved most cost effectively
with the MDS microstepping drives and MRS stepper motors. In this application a positional
accuracy better than 0.1 was all that was required. Therefore, the BCS style actuator was first
choice. However, the moment load generated by the second axis actuator and gluing head
drove the application to a B3S15 actuator as the primary axis. Also, by choosing Tol-O-Matic, this
customer was able to save additional cost by integrating a rodless pneumatic cylinder as a constant
force glue feed, in place of an additional drive, motor, and electric actuator.
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