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1st International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Sciences for Sustainable Technologies

Investigation on the Influence of Geometrical Deviation of Rack in the Assembly Process and Development of the Fixture

Ramakrishnan T, Aravinth K, Basila Kathryn J, Chandreeswari K, Mithun S and Abinav M M, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Eshwar College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.


Online First : 07 June 2023
Publisher Name : AnaPub Publications, Kenya.
ISSN (Online) : 2960-2408
ISSN (Print) (Online) : 2960-2394
ISBN (Online) : 978-9914-9946-6-7
ISBN (Print) : 978-9914-9946-7-4
Pages : 041-046

Abstract


Fixtures have a direct impact on the productivity and the quality of the product, so the design of the fixture for the respective production process is important. This paper deals with the design and fabrication of the assembly fixture to mount the subassembly parts of the MultiThermPro plasma cutting machine. In the existing method,the rack and pinion concept is used for the horizontal movement of the plasma torchand the alignment of the rack in the groove (horizontal column)is done manually. Considering the process quality, manually aligning the rack leads to a deviation or error in rack assembly. Also, the technique suggested in this paper helps in reducing the cycle time of the production process. The fixture was designed with the CAD software and the fixture was developed based on the requirement.

Keywords


Fixture, Rack Deviation, Productivity, Quality, Cycle Time.

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Ramakrishnan T, Aravinth K, Basila Kathryn J, Chandreeswari K, Mithun S and Abinav M M, “Investigation on the Influence of Geometrical Deviation of Rack in the Assembly Process and Development of the Fixture”, Advances in Computational Intelligence in Materials Science, pp. 041-046, June. 2023. doi:10.53759/acims/978-9914-9946-6-7_5

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© 2023 Ramakrishnan T, Aravinth K, Basila Kathryn J, Chandreeswari K, Mithun S and Abinav M M. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.