Lead time reduction and process enhancement for a low volume product

Economic growth of any nation is depending on the Gross Domestic Product. To improve a country economy, the industries needs to produce gross domestic products at large rate for export. Every industry has value added and non-value added (waste) activities. Non – value added activities always pulls down the efficiency, effectiveness and profit of the industry which will lets to devastating future. In order to overcome the waste many works and research has to be carried out with the focus on lean implementation. Lean implementation should be carried out progressively to obtain fruitful result. This project has been carried out on a casting industry in which non value added activities such as unnecessary transportation, motion, and waiting and high space conception are identified using current state mapping and current state layout. It is highly complicated to implement all the lean tools in a manufacturing system. So to prioritize only few lean tools which are essential to eliminate those wastes and an integrated model (combine fuzzy and FMEA environment) was used. Fuzzy is to avoid ambiguity in observation and FMEA is to prioritize the cause. After eliminating the wastes, future state value stream mapping is drawn and its performance is compared with the existing layout.

Section: Value Stream Mapping (Vsm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration of Lean Principles with Fuzzy FMEA in a Small Scale Casting Industry

Deepan

Raj

Ponselvan

et al. 2022

“…To explore the mechanical characteristics of the composites made-up of banana and E-Glass, a vacuum packing process was developed. Elasticity, flexural properties, swaying quality, and hardness are the mechanical qualities that are evaluated [19]. Glass-jute fibre reinforced polymer composites have been tested for mechanical qualities [20].In the earlier studies, the glass-jute combination of hybridized composites were prepared and tested for their mechanical ability.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Polymer Composite Reinforced with S-Glass and Luffa Fibres

Vigneshkumar

Harikannan

Selvakumar

et al. 2022

The mix of two different type of fibres, one is natural and another one is synthetic fibres were employed as reinforcing media in this study, and epoxy based polymer resin was employed as the matrix phase. S-glass and luffa fibres had been bonded with epoxy matrix to create a novel composite by compression moulding and to measure the effect of this hybridization in composite laminate utilising five different sequencing. To determine the mechanical characteristics of this composite material using tensile, flexural, and compression strength, a specimen named 'SL4' had shown the highest mechanical strength, resulting in a tensile properties of 253 MPa, compression strength of 234 MPa, and flexural characteristics of 237 MPa. The increment in mechanical characteristics is found to exhibiting around 20% increase comparing to the specimen having next higher value in all the properties. The results evidenced that the presence of luffa fibre layers at the interior most portion of the composite displayed the progressive values in all the investigated mechanical characteristics.

“…Electric vehicles, as proposed by major manufacturers, represent a shift in the urban mobility paradigm. Furthermore, a number of organization and energy experts are proposing new regulations to boost EV research, development, and demonstration projects [3,4]. When it comes to EV research, there is a tendency to associate it with new and revolutionary automobiles.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Assessment of Electrically Converted Diesel Fuel Driven Commercial Vehicle

Babu

Kumar²,

Manoj³

et al. 2022

An electric vehicle has an alternative drive that uses electric motors and controllers to replace traditional internal combustion engines. Power comes from a battery or battery cell, not a carbon-based fuel. This not only saves money, but also has a low environmental impact. It also has a number of advantages over traditional internal combustion engines, particularly in terms of considerably reduced pollutants and increased energy efficiency. There are several impediments to the quick adoption of electric vehicles, including battery technical constraints, high purchasing costs, and a lack of charging infrastructure. In this conversion we can save and control the emission and pollution. In this work, a diesel fuel driven 909 CC commercial vehicle has been converted into the electric vehicle (EV) with suitable modifications in their power train. Then, the performance of the EV was analysed and it was found satisfactory. In this way, an attempt was made to retrofit the commercial diesel vehicle to work in electric power. The mileage of the EV was measured as 110 km per charge for the 25% load and 80 km per charge for the full load condition.