International Journal of Engineering Research

Guddakesh Kumar Chandan ¹, Brajesh Kumar Kanchan ², R. Premkumar ¹, R. Karthik ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, IN
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, IN

Abstract

In the developing technological scenario, the researchers are looking for a material that is highly reliable and having unique property to retaining its shape in certain high and low temperature. The shape memory alloy is having prescribed qualities and one of its unique property is to recover shape upon heating can be effectively packaged into compact, light, powerful silent actuators to replace DC motors and electrical motors. The objective of the paper is to design, fabricate and analysis of gripper on the principle of slide crank mechanism, which is actuate with Shape Memory Alloy spring. The characteristics targeted in this experiment are of ensuring mechanical actions if stimulated with electrical current allows the development of simple, more compact and reliable actuators.

Keywords

Shape Memory Alloy Spring, Gripper, Slide Crank Mechanism.

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R. Prem Kumar ¹, Guddakesh Kumar Chandan ¹, R. Ramamoorthi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, IN

Abstract

In the growing environmental awareness bio-fiber reinforced plastic composite has received increasing attention during the recent years. The composites have lot of advantages over the traditional glass fiber or mineral filled ceramic materials including low cost, light weight, eco friendliness and recyclability. In this paper I use banana, bamboo and pine apple fibers. By using the above mentioned three reinforcement with epoxy resin we will be provided with combinations of banana/bamboo, pineapple/bamboo and banana/pineapple hybrid composites. By the combination of all the three fibers we get bamboo/banana/pineapple hybrid composites. The percentage of resin added is about 70% and the fiber is of 30%. The fabricated samples are subjected to mechanical and physical tests as per the ASTM standards. The best combination is suggested for the manufacturing of automobile applications.

Keywords

Banana, Bamboo, Pineapple, Hybrid Composites, ASTM Testing.

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Brajesh Kumar Kanchan ¹, Guddakesh Kumar Chandan ², D. Rajenthirakumar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, IN
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, IN

Abstract

In the competitive market scenario, the companies are facing difficulties in making profit. The lean concepts are like solution tools for them. It mainly focuses on eliminating wastes from the process followed in the industries and creating valuable product to the customer with less capital investment. The Just in time (JIT) is an ideology originated in Toyota as like other lean concepts but it focuses on providing a pathway for the industries to reach a state where inventories requirement on the shop floor will be fulfilled by the suppliers at real time. The case study conducted in valve manufacturing industry where the raw material inventories have a larger pie of investment. The Sole purpose of this paper is to identify gaps present in supply chain process and replace it with JIT Approach. For identify the supply chain, understanding of procurement cycle is important. So, The Pathway starts with identification of key customer along with its key product. The key product is thoroughly analysed with ABC Analysis to determine the targeted part. The part suppliers are compared with their delivery date and quality produced by them in current process. The supplier development strategy generates different proposals, among which best four are selected. Among these four, supplier ranking need to be reformulated with increased number of factors for evaluating suppliers than Continuous inventory removal (CIR) Plan has formulated based on Continuous sampling plan used in sampling inspection and data's are analysed on cost aspect for this method. As the conclusion, the JIT implementation brings several favourable factors like reduction in inventory level, less investment required for running business.

Keywords

Just in Time, Continuous Inventory Removal, Predetermined Minimum Method.

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