ENGINEERING SERVICES AND CONSULTING Srl

Industrial products: cards reader and encoder magnetic, chip and RFID.

The reader and encoder is an industrial product that allows you to read and write data on suitable cards such as debit cards, credit cards and control badges. It can read and write data using different methods: magnetic, chip and RFID (contact or short-distance). These readers are generally integrated into self-service devices such as ATM machines, information kiosks and vending machines.

After we defined the specifications of the industrial product with the customer, we elaborated the concept from a system-base point of view, defining the main characteristics and design constraints; we then carried out an analysis of the problem using the TRIZ method and proceeded with the sizing of the stepper motor, the handling of the cards by means of rollers in order to have a speed of advancement that allows the reading of data on magnetic strips. A specific connector design was developed for the chip part.

Executive design.

Starting from the results obtained with the TRIZ analysis and the sizing done, we started the phase of cad/cam design using the parametric software PTC Creo. The modelling phase has been integrated with the use of other methodologies to support the design: DfMA (design for manufacturing and assembly), DoE (design of experiment), DTC (Design To Cost) and Robust Design - Taguchi.

The 3D cad models and their associated drawings were delivered to the customer (Chinese company) who built, assembled and tested the technological prototypes supported by us.

Completed the final cad documentation with the list of components, drawings and assembly and testing procedures the customer has started the mass production phase in his factory in China.

The reader was then integrated with the project of a card dispenser in order to have a standalone station able to issue new personalized cards.