Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to transfer the idea of changeability to a concrete technical application. Design/methodology/approach - Based on the definition of changeability on a factory level, a transformation ...

This paper describes the energy flow in jerk-decoupled translatory feed axes. After an introductory survey on jerk-decoupled feed axes, a system simulation is presented. This system simulation includes a model of the ...

An active aerodynamic feeding system developed at the IFA offers a large potential regarding output rate, reliability and neutrality towards part geometries. In this paper, the procedure of a genetic algorithm's into the ...