Designing and manufacturing of a heavy equipment rotary table equipped with PLC control

The process of major repairs and manufacturing in diesel engine repairing and remanufacturing factories is very important. Reducing the cost of repairing and the time of the processes is depended on the amount of capacity and work speed. One of the equipment that increases the capacity and speed of work is a device called a heavy equipment rotary table. In this article, research and investigation for the construction of a heavy equipment rotary table is targeted. The importance and application of items that should be considered for the design of this product have been collected. The designing of this device has been done in CATIA and Abaqus software. The loading capacity of the device was 15 tons and the torque capacity was 15000 N.m. The influential and critical components of the device were simulated using Abacus finite element software, and the geometric dimensions of each component were precisely determined. St37 carbon steel sheets were used to make the body of the machine. The standard components and parts of the device were also selected according to the mechanical and functional characteristics of the device. Finally, the rotary table device was built according to the extracted functional models and its function was evaluated successfully.