Title: Effective product efficiency using advanced manufacturing techniques

Authors: K.R. Dushyanth Kumar; Rajeshwar S. Kadadevaramath; Edinbarough A. Immanuel

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan-573201, Karnataka, India ' Department of IE&M, Siddaganga Institute of Technology Tumkur-572103, Karnataka, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Brownsville, 80, Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, USA

Abstract: Companies have to focus on their improvements have results in the maintenance management of physical assets and productive systems for which optimal preventive maintenance through engineering adjustments on machines using advanced manufacturing techniques (AMT) like design of experiments (DOE), total productive maintenance (TPM) and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) are used. The researchers have not yet explored the infusing advanced manufacturing techniques in automotive tyre tube valve manufacturing industry, in order to explore in this direction the author tries to detect and control of non-uninformed threads of automotive tyre tube valve component in thread rolling process. The rejection samples and route cause for the same are obtained on the basis of experiments and apply DOE to process through which rejections of non-uninformed threads on tube valve can detect easily, which leads to increase the productivity and reduces lead time in the whole process.

Keywords: engineering adjustments; technical adjustments; optimisation; non-uniformed threads; design of experiments; DOE; rejection control; advanced manufacturing technology; AMT; product efficiency; preventive maintenance; automotive tyres; tyre tube valves; valve manufacturing; thread rolling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2013.053755

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2013 Vol.7 No.2, pp.121 - 134

Published online: 28 Nov 2013 *

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