MEXICO, DF The study, tenacity and self-confidence allowed José Martín Aranda Ku, a student at UTM in Merida, programming and achieve a robotic arm connection to a drilling and riveting of panels used in the manufacture of planes.
Student of the Metropolitan Technological University (UTM) Ku Aranda won a scholarship from Mexprotec program, which allowed him to make a stay in France to specialize in an educational institution in the country and develop a project in the private sector.
Through this project, the student's area of mechatronics, also earned his professional license in automation, industrial communication networks Industrial vision and ergonomics granted by the University Institute of Technology in Montlucon, France.
The challenge, he says, improve the speed, efficiency, operation, lower costs and increase security around the piercing rivets and panels used in the manufacture of aircraft, the world's safest transport.
During the stay in France the firm Groupe Ledoux, dedicated to automation in the aerospace industry, given the task of scheduling and communicating a robotic arm attached to a rivet known as Lynx dou Type C.
Although there are machines that perform these tasks, the challenge was to improve efficiency as part of the process to change the drilling tools (drills) and rivet were basically manual, which is slow, risky for the worker and also can generate failures because of human intervention.
Currently, there are machines that already have this system of mechanical arm, but they are very large and expensive to use a system of computerized numerical control, known as CNC.
When a panel is asked rivet holes of different sizes are needed.
By connecting this robotic arm removes tools and the arm change this quickly and efficiently. That touched my programming work performed, he said.
However, these tasks are not limited to changing tools but also to give the arm of an ID reader that allows to know the type of drill is needed for drilling, how many revolutions must turn and how much use has been given, needing to be replaced. The same applies to the portaremaches.
Also, it's such accuracy that can now be used tablets tests that are drilled and riveted, which are sent to the deposits for which can be studied in laboratories, because by its nature, the panels should not have lumps.
After little more than three months to develop the project, it was concluded and submitted by that company over the past exposure Burget Hall in Paris "where the objective was met, the team sold even without any changes."
He said that one of the greatest experiences in France was the knowledge that if you can develop this type of projects and "we can contribute to the development of our country in the areas we propose."
What we need, he continued, is a lot of practice, gain experience and learn the basic principles and logic programming, which will facilitate us develop our projects.
"I think the big secret to this type of project is not being afraid, tossing use all this technological development that we have in our time where memory for programming is infinite, almost limitless," he said.
"One of the situations that I liked most is the business confidence in its people. He never pressured me, knew that I was going to get so I had no constraints or pressures, on the contrary there was a lot of freedom to work ", he said.
In Mexico, he said, we have the potential to develop projects of many types but we have confidence in ourselves and in our people. In France people are aware that he has to enter early-and punctually to work and leave late.
But in return, he noted, the company provides fair payment for their work, enough to live well and this makes them feel encouraged and free to labor.
Jose Martin is one of 15 young people who developed the UTM stay of one year -13 in France and two in Canada, and who were seeking to obtain a professional license in several areas of knowledge.
