3D software investment
A greater variety of applications for conveyors and the need for increased speed have driven change in the marketplace. In addition, PLCs now control systems that may incorporate product separation, centralising, orientation and merging or metal detection and weighting.
To help meet these challenges, UPM Conveyors invested close to £50,000 in Autodesk’s Inventor 3D software. Used for creating digital prototypes using design visualisation and simulation of products; this will be of great benefit to customers as they can now visualise the proposed solution for a product handling application.
This new software includes assembly stress analysis allowing them to input driving loads, friction characteristics and dynamic components, then to run dynamic simulation tests to see how a product would work under real life conditions.
