Development of combined deburring and inspection system

Automation is a step beyond mechanisation, to increase productivity and to improve the quality. Automated manufacturing systems operate in the factory on the physical product to perform operations such as processing, assembly, inspection, or material handling and sometimes accomplishing more than one of these operations in the same system. One of the strategies for the automation is combination of operations which involves, reducing the number of distinct production machines or workstations through which the part must be routed. This is accomplished by performing more than one operation at a given machine, thereby reducing the number of separate machines needed. Some of the combination of operations performed on one system like processing and assembly, processing and material handling, assembly and material handling, material handling and inspection is done in recent past. But very little work is done on combination of operations such as processing and inspection on same system. This paper addresses combination of operations like deburring and inspection on same system.