Summary of your final year project

Project Title: Design of Cam Mechanism

Objective: Objective of the project is to numerically generate a cam profile to control motion of swing
gripper of sheet feed offset printing machine SOM125. This project was a part of the increasing the
capacity of machine

Project done for: Hindustan machine tools limited (HMT), Kerala India , HMT is one of the top
manufacturers of Sheetfed Offset Printing Machine from India.

Background information: As part of continuous development, HMT decided to improve the capacity
of their Sheetfed Offset Printing SOM125 . They chartered a project for this development. As part of
final year project, myself with other 3 colleague involved in this project. Our assignment was to
develop a cam system which can overcome the speed limitation of existing spring loaded cam system.
Our assigned task was an integral part of the total project.

Project Description

Existing CAM mechanism which drives the swing gripper use springs to keep the contact of the swing
gripper roller with cam profile. When the speed of the cam rotation increases, spring fails to keep the
swing gripper roller in contact with the cam profile. This was a major bottle neck for increasing the
speed of the machine. Task was to develop new system to overcome above mentioned difficulty.

Old system

New system is proposed as part of the project, where the follower motion was controlled by counter cam
instead of spring .Thus the one of the constraints to increase the speed of the machine can be overcame. .
A program was developed in 'C' programming language for numerically generating
cam profile for CNC machining

New system