QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT IN MACHINE TOOLS AND ROBOTS

M. S. Popa

Abstract

Thermal effects are still the largest single source of dimensional errors and apparent non-repeatability of technological equipment.The thermal stability of robots and machine tools, both in the phase of machining as in that of testing and reception, most also be connected with quality assurance and quality management. The author has studied more than 20 years the optimisation of thermal behaviour of machine tools and he had his doctorate in this field. Also, the author has used, for the first time in Romania, the thermographical study at the machine tools, and has determined on this way the isothermal field and the thermal map for machine tools. The paper presents some results of the author’s research at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and others together with the collegues from the Vienna University of Technology or the University of Stuttgart.

Keywords

temperature measurement; quality management; thermal behaviour

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