Design

Everyone knows that if you flick your finger against steel you can hear a reverberation, but if you try the same thing with concrete what you hear is a muffled thud (and perhaps your own screams of pain). That’s because concrete absorbs vibration. So, Datron engineers decided to incorporate an aged polymer concrete into the design of our machines. This rigid material is actually cast in a single piece that forms the foundation of our chassis. Some of our competitors, on the other hand, rely heavily on the use welded steel parts in their chassis design. But, steel plates that are joined together by welding are susceptible to the effects of vibration. The welding process requires superheating of both solder and sheet metal in order to join plates together to form larger pieces required for the chassis. Within each cooled and hardened welded joint there exists significant tension that naturally is looking to escape. Vibration produced by the machine’s motor provides a means for that escape. When the tension is released due to this vibration, the chassis becomes deformed — perhaps not enough to be noticed by the human eye, but enough to sacrifice accuracy and repeatability.