A Study on Funnel Feeding Automatic Auxiliary Mechanism

• Main Authors: Wen-Xuan Wu, 吳文軒
• Other Authors: Pei-Chien Chin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vn99ss

碩士 === 義守大學 === 機械與自動化工程學系 === 107 === Due to manpower reduction in army, the manufacturing process in military plants should be introduced and implemented automation equipment for more flexible and smart production in military plants. In the case study factory, it is found that the present production line on wet activated charcoal dip dyeing is manual charging by a worker standing on a 1m high platform. The improvement of production process has been proposed in this study. The aim of this research is to design an innovated combined automation machines using electrical motor driven cargo lift and landscape orientation funnel. Worker stands on the ground and a smart funnel auxiliary mechanism designed in this study is capable to set up weighting, lifting and charging-discharging on the transportation machines. Then, the drying operations on wet activated charcoal can be accomplished to save production time, decrease the manpower, increase production and improve quality. In addition, computer simulation on automation and manual operations were conducted to compare the manufacturing process time. An automatic charging-discharging system developed in this research can apply to other military plants. Study results demonstrated that implementation of new automation equipment would increase the cost at the beginning but reduce the operation time and manpower. It is also found that automation mechanism would increase the human-machine collaboration and improve the yield rate and production quality.