Superior Machine & Engineering Company (Marine City, MI) designs and manufacture test machines, assembly machines, and transfer lines for automotive companies. the machines that often pose the biggest design challenges are those for automated test. A typical test machine in an automotive plant must be fully automatic for day-in and day-out production testing, yet flexible enough to accommodate experimentation by manufacturing engineering and the R&D people. Superior recently built a machine-the Model 182-that would rigidly test automatic transmission bearings and duplicate onboard operational characteristics. The machine is now the standard for manufacturers who supply General Motors. The machine's control system was based on a Siemens SIMATIC S5-135U PLC. The system is based on temperature measurement. Its operation is described.


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    Title :

    Programmable controllers automate component testing


    Additional title:

    Programmierbare Steuerungen automatisieren das Tasten von Zulieferteilen


    Contributors:
    Sweet, W.L. (author)

    Published in:

    I&CS ; 63 , 4 ; 97-98


    Publication date :

    1990


    Size :

    2 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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