Problems That We Encountered During Manufacture

Throughout this project we have encountered many problems. 

 

The first of which involved the materials. We wasted several weeks waiting for the material and parts we need to be ordered and delivered. Once we had the material we wasted a couple more weeks waiting to use the laser cutter. This was a problem because it gave use less time to assembly the final product once the parts were cut.

 
When we finally had all of the material and part we needed and had access to the laser cutter we had another set of problems. The first of which was the machine bed on the CNC milling machine was not flat so the slot in the based plate was not even and had to be adjusted by hand. This lowered the overall accuracy of the project and used more time. The information, about the position of the mounting holes on both motors, was different on the manufacturer's website and on the actually motors. Due to this the central rib had to be cut twice.

 

Cutting of the panel on the laser cutter was also a problem as we had the sizes wrong and the panel ended up being too small for the base plate. This used up our material. As a result of this we had to use wood for the external panels.

 

Below is a picture of the original useless box.

 

Below are picture of our finished useless box.