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The aim of the present paper is to set up a first approach of a Vibration Model of a POM Conveyor System, commonly used nowadays in Automobile Industry to transport vehicles and workers together as Final Assembly Lines, composed by extremely long length Polymer Chain. Although these conveyor systems offer a successfully behaviour in terms of reliability, endurance and load capacity, sometimes but rarely appears a swing-effect in the middle and the end of the chain conveyor when a worker walks or gets into the beginning of it. This undesired vibration provokes, as well as an uncomfortable and anti-ergonomic situation for the worker, a loss of quality of the manufactured product, in this case, automobiles. Once the main objective is the study of the swing effect under a dynamic point of view, starting by setting a vibration model based on differential equations, and later, by the use of computer software, to set up a simplified dynamical model to analyse the vibration behaviour to contribute to improve the mechanical design and to reduce this undesired effect.
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Cubero, A.F., Artés, M. (2014). Vibration Model of a POM Chain Conveyor for the Automobile Industry. In: Petuya, V., Pinto, C., Lovasz, EC. (eds) New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7485-8_6
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