Design and Development of Tyre Transfer Unit

Abstract

Automation is often employed as a riser for production rate and quality in industries. Automation is the application of mechanical, electronic, and computer-based systems to operate and to control manufacturing. Automation implies that human labor, both cognitively and physically, is replaced by electronic or mechanical devices. In auto- mated manufacturing systems, the operations are performed with a reduced degree of human participation. The dissertation is dealing with structural design and analysis for tyre transfer, such as deformation, stress and hindrances in existing industrial structure. The integrated problem of manual transfer of the tyres from storage to assembly line describes the importance of development of new system. A particular path is selected for the proposed system, an unit structure is designed for manufacturing whole structure of path. Trolley is designed such a way that, it carries 6 tyres to assembly point at a time. The computation approach employs the nite element technique to solve the three dimensional structural problem and struc- tural analysis. An experimental solution is carried out. Simulation as well as three dimensional geometry is developed and modeled by using software program SOLID EDGE ST3. Whereas computational analysis is carried out with the help of AN- SYS WORKBENCH, to determine deformation, stress and to decide the safety of the structure. Material selected for manufacturing the proposed system, is structural steel. The guide-rail structure is analyzed for the loading conditions, which results as a safe structure and, column-beam structure (main frame) is also analyzed by applying loads, which has the safe results too.