Máquina virtual de remachado textil

Abstract

One of the process in the textile industry is the eyelet assembly in the different products, for it is used a “Riveter”. This machine is used to place rivets on textile garments or footwear, for esthetic or reinforcement purposes. There are three types of riveters: "Manuals", "Semi-automatic" and "Automatic"; one of the problems that these presents are the manual calibration because human intervention is required. A virtual machine for an automatic textile riveter was developed using CAD software as SolidWorks where the design of the mechanical systems that integrate the virtual machine, together a visual programming software, LabVIEW, is used, in which a front panel is developed, capable of controlling the entire production process as long as there is a link between these two interfaces through "LabVIEW Soft Motion " The communication between this two software achieve to characterize a "Virtual Machine of Riveted Textile" where it is improved in the riveting of eyelets in less than two seconds, the ability to rivet 4 different sizes of eyelets and automatic calibration using a mechanical system called "LongWorth-Chuck", this contributes to an optimization of conventional riveting machines.