Equipment

1) Industrial Automation and Robotics-related Facilities

• • Fanuc M-1iA/0.5A with a controller, R-30iB Mate

  • Five Fanuc ArcMate 120iC with a controller (R-30iA) and a welding power source (i.e., Lincoln Electric, Model: PowerWave F355i)

  • Festo MecLab Pneumatic and Hydraulic Systems

  • intelitek Flexible manufacturing systems (spectraLIGHT with Scorbot-ER 4u)

  • Intelitek Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) system

  • Allen-Bradley PLC (SLC 500 and SLC 5/03 CPU)

  • GE Fanuc PLC (90-30)

2) Manufacturing Facilities

• • 5 axis high-speed Fadal CNC machine

  • 3D printer (3DS Projet 3500 at the Center for Manufacturing Research)

  • CNC routers (4' by 8') with a NEMA 34

3) Welding-related Facilities

• • Fronius CMT (Cold Metal Transfer) Advanced 4000 MV R

  • Miller Dynasty 400

  • PowerWave 300C, Lincoln Electronics

  • PowerWave 455, Lincoln Electronics

  • Miller Synchrowavw 350LX

4) Metrology Facilities

• • CMM (Brown & Sharpe with Renishaw SP600M probe)

  • SEM (Quanta 200 at the Center for Manufacturing Research)

  • SEM (Hitachi S-4500 at the Center for Manufacturing Research)

  • XRD (Ultima IV at the Center for Manufacturing Research)

  • Air Grinding/Polishing Machine (P30FS-1-R5)

  • Material Polishing Machine (METPOL-2V)

5) Data Acquisition and Control Units

• • LabView Daq

  • Arduino

6) Sensors/Actuators

• • AC/DC motors and drives

  • Current Transformer (Pearson Electronics Wide Band/Pulse Current Transformer Model 3025)

  • Image sensors: high resolution CCD

7) Software

• • Simulation tool for Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM): OpenCIM

  • Off-line Robot Programming: ROBOGUIDE HandlingPro

  • Autodesk, Solidworks, PTC Creo

  • FeatureCAM, Mach3

  • Ansys, Abacus, COMSOL

  • Matlab, MathCad, Mathematica, MiniTab, IBM CPLEX