Bespoke systems answer measurement demands
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Synectic Design product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Nov 23, 2004
Development of control and measurement instrumentation for wave power units is just one of the bespoke projects currently under way at Synectic Design.
The potential for industrial process control and measurement instrumentation and systems for wave power units is being extended in a development project being undertaken by the design team at Synectic Design.
The company is currently developing a digitally tareable amplifier for remote control operation, so that the wave power unit can be monitored through simple logic signals.
The company has already designed and built a device to create electricity using offshore wave power for Ocean Power Delivery (OPD).
In 2003 OPD was trying to prove the potential of its device, and contacted Synectic Design through one of the company's technical partners to cater for its specialist requirements.
Initially laboratory tests were carried out on small-scale models, followed shortly by sea trials on larger scale models.
The company required a device to measure structural stresses and amplify the signal for monitoring and further data processing.
Synectic Design's design team adapted a standard SY011 versatile inline bridge amplifier to meet OPD's requirements.
I another project for Vauxhall, Synectic had devised a completely new bespoke device to test and aid adjustment of the boot lid closing mechanism, whereby Vauxhall could gauge the closing forces required for its boot lids.
The Synectic Design unit has the potential to vastly improve the efficiency of production, improving both costs and time.
The prototype is soon to be introduced into the Ellesmere Port manufacturing plant, in the north west of the UK.
Once the trial period has been completed Synectic expects Vauxhall would require more units, as it provides an extremely cost effective solution.
The company has also secured a contract from BAe Systems for a system to test and stress the strings in all Airbus airliner wings following the successful application of an earlier system that has been measuring the residual stresses in the wing-strings and then applied a load to the strings using hydraulics to reduce the stresses to zero.
The system has been running at BAE system's Broughton manufacturing plant near Chester in the north west of the UK since 2000.
The system used an adapted SY005 batch weight controller and SY018 balance amplifiers to adjust the hydraulics according to the input signals from the strain gauges on the actuator of the machine.
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