The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 20, 1980, Image 3

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Machine tools built with plastic parts made by a West German
toymaker are being used in a Texas A&M engineering lab to
■ simulate factory machines that cost millions of dollars. Dr.
Tools to find hidden flaws
Robert Young and graduate students Joe Morgan and John
Campbell examine a plastic mechanical robot.
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By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Reporter
pSnapping together plastic toy
parts isn’t just fun and games as a
class of engineering students at
Texas A&M University are finding
out.
? Playing with these toys can lead to
understanding new tools used in in
dustry -— robots.
i Dr. Robert E. Young, assistant
professor of industrial engineering at
Texas A&M, said there is a common
misconception about industrial
robots.
Most people see them as R2-D2 of
Star Wars, or some other mechanical
character of the silver screen,
p He also said it’s a misconception
that robots take the place of humans.
I “It’s not like the robot takes the
man’s job, it usually upgrades the
skill level,” he said. “Everywhere
you see a robot, there is someone
working with it.”
The plastic toy parts, purchased
from a West German toymaker, are
being used to build models of factory
machines, he said.
In terms of toys, he said, it’s ex
pensive, but in terms of building a
full-scale model the project is inex
pensive.
The cost of the Fischertechnik
toys is $1,000.
“What we’re doing here at A&M is
starting a manufacturing engineer
ing program,” Young said.
He said it’s a joint program be
tween engineering technology, in
dustrial engineering and mechanical
engineering.
Young said the responsibility of
the industrial engineering depart
ment is along the computer manufac
turing lines.
“Our responsibility,” he said, “is
to come up with the systems designs
and techniques that will allow them
to be integrated in automated sys
tems.
“This means computer languages,
computer simulation and physical
models of actual factory machines. ’’
The department is setting up an
automated systems laboratory which
will contain a miniature milling
machine and multi-axis robot, Young
said.
The milling machine was built
with the plastic parts by Capts. Joe
Morgan and John Campbell, both
engineering graduate students.
Young said he’s proud these stu
dents designed, built and wrote
computer languages for the milling
machine. The machine is now prog
rammed to etch the Texas A&M
logo, and what they jokingly refer to
as an “Aggie ruler” on a square of
plexiglass.
The “ruler” is actually a spiral de
sign.
The machine, he said, enables stu
dents to get an idea of how a real
milling machine works.
The multi-axis robot, which will
be used to run the machine, is being
built by two other students as a
senior project.
Young said these “toys” will help
fill a gap in the manufacturing pro
cess.
The process to design equipment,
he said, is to start with a mathematic
al model. From there, the models
are computer simulated and the best
system is chosen.
The final step is to construct the
best design from plastic parts.
These procedures, developed
from using the toy machines, he said,
will allow designers to detect hidden
problems.
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