| dc.description.abstract | Automation has been popular
among most manufacturing and
production systems due to improved
efficiency, high production rates and low
wastage. The project was focused on
Designing and Fabrication of an Automated
Ruler Printing Machine for stationary item
manufacturing industry. The main
objective of this research was to fully
automate the twelve-inch ruler printing
mechanism which was currently based on
manual production methods. Due to the
drawbacks of existing ruler printing
processes of Sri Lanka, the mechanism was
proposed to be automated in order to
minimize consumption of human labor and
time while improving safety, production
hours and production rates of the
manufacturing process. The research was
focused on automating basic functions of
ruler printing process such as loading,
unloading, cleaning, printing and packing
to reduce the human involvement in the
process. Thus, the proposed method
basically focusses on rotary indexing
mechanism to synchronize all the functions
of the manufacturing process to support
the continuous loading and unloading of
rulers. It was designed to increase the rate
of production by printing four rulers at
once while saving the cost of labor by
reducing human involvement by
automating main functions of the
manufacturing process.
The research was focused on introducing
online packing section and inbuilt ink
drying mechanism to reduce the work in
process (WIP) and lead times during
production while improving accuracy and
efficiency of the process by using a compact
design. | en_US |
