P004 → Caterpillar AWP
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Caterpillar Automatic Wire Preparing (CAWP) System
The University of Arizona's Engineering Design Program is a university-industry partnership that allows motivated engineering students to gain impactful real-world experience by tackling company projects over their senior year.
I was in charge of all drawings and renderings, each part of the record set was modeled by me in SolidWorks. I also worked extensively on the balancing of the Spooling Wheel and the full design of the Feeding/Measuring Device.
The automated system designed is housed in a vertical metal frame with a protective screen to shield the user from the operating mechanism. The system uses a standard spool of wire, which is loaded into the top of the device. The wire is threaded through a measuring device and cutting mechanism and attached to a winding drum. A touch screen allows the operator to input the desired length and quantity of the wire sections needed.
My team and I at Design Day with the CAWP System slightly deconstructed for the judges as we were being considered for the Overall Best Design Award.
The device automatically measures and spools the wire to within one inch accuracy. It cuts the wire, binds it with tape, and drops the fully prepared wire into a bin for collection at the bottom of the frame. This process repeats autonomously until the desired quantity of each wire length is achieved.
Drawing Set.pdf
The drawings were created by me to match the style of the drawing assignments for the class.
The original manual wire winding device.
This project is the property of Caterpillar.