Manufacturing Technology Today

A. Umesh Chandra ¹, N. Balashanmugam ¹, J. Thyagarajan ¹, G. Sudheendra ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Resource allocation by clustering is an effective method of creation of manufacturing cells. This works in the Prototype manufacturing environment also. This paper presents methodology adopted for formation of manufacturing cells by Production Flow Analysis (PFA) using Rank Order Clustering (ROA) algorithm. The original layout and redesigned layout are analyzed for material flow using the software FactoryFlow. The results indicate substantial reduction in movement of material flow and realisation of benefits of cellular manufacturing. This paper also discusses the monitoring method adopted for tracking the components.

Keywords

Resource Allocation, Prototype Manufacturing, Cell Formation, Material Flow, Clustering.

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S. V. Prasad ¹, P. Raghuram Naik ¹, G. Sudheendra ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Tumkur Road, Bangalore - 560 022, IN

Abstract

Cam type grinding wheel dressing attachments, in which the X and Y motions of the dressing diamond are controlled independently by templates, facilitates fast, accurate and automatic contour dressing, the design of the templates could be done in such a way that the peripheral speed of the diamond could be kept constant and also to cover wide range of grinding wheel profiles. This paper describes the development of templates for grinding splines and gears using cam type wheel dressing attachment.

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