Wheel Shop Automation: Automated Bearing Mount Press Machine Cell
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Automation is vital to modern railway wheel shops. Automated facilities play a critical role in improving capacity and throughput in heavy haul, freight railroad, and passenger rail operations. Wheel shop operators seek new strategies to improve car and axle loadings, reduce downtime, extend rolling stock life, and manage rolling stock inventory levels. Traditional wheel shop designs often constrains these improvements. However, an advanced and agile automated wheel shop designed, manufactured, and installed by NSH USA Corporation will meet or surpass these desired capabilities.
Beyond increasing capacity and decreasing downtime, the wheel shop’s overall safety is greatly improved through decreased human interaction with equipment and wheel set components. We customize each facility to meet current and future production capabilities; only NSH USA has the experience and technology to totally integrate all machines and automation systems. Combining NSH USA’s experience and dependable machine tools with modern automation technology will enable a more productive wheel shop and keep your rail vehicles on track.
An example of railway wheel shop automation is the NSH USA Automated Bearing Mount Machine Cell. It performs all bearing mounting, end cap installation, and measurement processes utilizing only one or two operators, relying on escapements and a programmable robotic arm to move wheel sets components.
For more information on NSH USA' automated wheel shop products, please visit: nsh-usa.com/wh....
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I most definitely wish this was around when I was selling this type of equipment. I know several Plant engineers, whose mouth would have watered, at it.
+craxd1 It is really something to see in person - that robot whips the bearings where they need to go. Beautiful stuff.
this mavhince does it's job roughly at the same rate of speed as I used to. the shop I work in has manual hydrolic bearings presses. which we generally pump out 50-60 wheel sets within a 8 hour shift. however this machince is impressive! definitely wish we had one
+john hilton 50-60 wheel sets per shift!?!? You + your crew are not messing around.
👍Awsome automation work
Thanks for the kind words! There's more where that came from on our channel.
That feeling when it first goes on and all the way in
I'm not sure you are going with this, but will continue to be amped that you are watching the videos - thanks!
Very wonderful work
Thanks!
As a former railroader, this is fun to watch.
Itd be helpful to have captions stating what each step accomplishes. It seemed like the "fingers" robot went through a lot of redundant steps. I'm sure that's not the case!
Glad you enjoyed the videos! We have recently been adding captions for videos like this to make the process more clear, so that is good advice indeed. As for the robot's movements, it's a pretty tightly scripted path that balances production time/goals with safety. Thanks for the comments!
it's also funny that our machinery is also blue and yellow! I wonder if you guys manufactured it.
+john hilton Wild - what shop are you?
thanks
Glad to help! It is a great tool.
please i want to ask about that tool it's locks the looking plate .
Good
Thanks! We're pretty proud of this machine cell.
Please let me know what tool you used at 3:40. I want to know the name and the manufacturer of tools.
Here you go! It's a great tool: www.simonds.tools/railcar-wheel-tab-bender
plaese can you help me too konw about the tools it's wrot in the tool (Rotop Tool)(OLEVE-O) its uesed for loking plate .
Token human involvement at 3:39. Why did this job survive automation? I'm guessing some kind of government mandate for a certain number of human hours of labor required (job protection) in exchange for operating permits. The manufacturer figured "this is the least difficult, least hard to screw up task on the assembly line," so they assigned to a person.
Hi Adam - that end cap assembly station was pre-existing, so we designed the bearing mount cell around it. The whole cell requires 1-2 operators. Thanks for checking out the video!
Dear
I saw in video their tool and I want to ask about name of the tool and where can I find it .whice is uesed too close the looking plate
I'm sorry I missed this inquiry. What tool are you referring to in this video?
thanks
but I still don't know name of the tool I had been seen on video you can see the tool from 3:40 till 3:44 minutes whice is closed the locking plate for train wheel
help me please to get that tool.
It is the Simonds Rail Road Tab Bender - one of their RR series (they sell five different versions). Here are the folks that manufacture and sell it: www.simonds-inc.com/
you can sae the tool in (3:44) form the vidoe
I believe you are referring to the Simonds Tab Bender. It's not a product listed on their website, but if you contact them, that should be enough to get an order rolling: www.simonds-inc.com/ Hope that helps! Thanks for checking out the video.
Simmons Machine Tool Corporation
Glad to deal with you
You as well!
DO you have a sales partner in India?
Yes, in Delhi
台鐵百年老店什麼時候才能有這樣的設備
让他们联系我们 - 我们很乐意向他们出售这样的设备！感谢您收看此视频。
Да, ружья кирпичом не чистят...
Какое глупое решение по автоматизации, такое ощущение, что люди купили робота-манипулятора и написали управляющую программу ради развлечения (как это делают студенты и школьники), а не ради эффективности производства.
Хотя я верю, что эта автоматическая ячейка машины действительно повысила производительность, она определенно повысила безопасность оператора и позволила по меньшей мере одному оператору быть перепрофилированным на объекте. (Приносим извинения за любые ошибки перевода.)
that machine is slow i work in a wheelshop and i move twice as fast as that thing (i am a bearing press operator) and just for sake of saying it those are bnsf ubr bearings either 6and a half x12 or 7x12
How do you handle bearings + wheel sets in your shop?
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