AUTOMATED HANDLING DEVICE FOR CILINDRICAL WORKPIECES USED FOR HIGH FREQUENCY INDUCTIONHARDENING EQUIPMENT

Abstract

Heating with high frequency induction has a large variety of applications like melting, heating and hardening metals. Heating by high frequency induction can be made in the complex automated manufacturing systems that can increase productivity and quality of the workpieces. Surface hardening of the workpiece is one of the most important application of induction heating. This project has the main goal of the authors to present an automated surface hardening system used for a cylindrical workpiece using the SolidWorks computer aided design software.

Keywords

• Cylindrical workpieces
• Induction heating
• metal heating and hardening
• surface hardening
• automated device for handling the pieces to the inductor