Pneumatic pusher on an assembly line: which shock absorber?

Ø63 cylinder at 6 bar drives a 200 kg slide into the stop. Watch the 44-second explainer, check the calculation, then open the same example in ImpactCal and change it to your own machine.

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Inputs (SI units)

Mass m	200 kg
Velocity v	1.5 m/s
Force F	1 870 N
Cycles C	500 /h

Calculation

Kinetic energyE1 = ½·m·v² = ½·200·1.5²	225 J
Drive energyE2 = F·s = 1 870·0.050	93.5 J
Energy per cycleE3 = E1 + E2	318.5 J
Energy per hourE4 = E3·C = 318.5·500	159 250 J/h
Effective massme = 2·E3 / v²	283 kg

s = stroke of the selected model · g = 9.81 m/s²

ImpactCal selection

ACX-45-50

Smallest · best-centred

Stroke50 mm

Stopping force7.96 kN

Deceleration28.1 m/s²

Stopping time0.083 s

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