National Conference on Technological Advancements in Engineering -2018

Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering and Technology, Payyanur

March 2018

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A MULTI PURPOSE MACHINE TOOL

Lipin k Arjun Sreedhar, Akul V, Kamal PP, Pranav T
Asst. Prof P P Pradeep Varun
Department of Mechanical Engineering B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering Students
Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering
and Technology, Payyanur and Technology, Payyanur
@gmail.com 1995varunpp@gmail.com

Multi-Purpose Machine Tool as a

Abstract
research area is motivated by questions that arise
In an industry, a considerable portion of
in industrial manufacturing, production planning
investment is being made for machinery
etc. Consider a large automotive garage with
installation. So in this project we have proposed
specialized shops. A car may require the
a machine which can perform operations like
following work like replace exhaust system, align
drilling, sawing (cutting), grinding and milling
wheels and tune up. These three tasks may be
which are lathe operations at different work
carried out in any order. However, since the
centers to be worked simultaneously which
exhaust system, alignment and tune-up shops are
implies that industrialist have not to pay for
in different buildings, it is impossible to perform
machine performing above tasks individually for
two tasks for a car simultaneously. When there
operating operation simultaneously. This report
are many cars requiring services at the three
presents the concept of Multi-Purpose Machine
shops, it is desirable to construct a service
Tool mainly carried out for production based
schedule that takes the least amount of total
industries. We have developed a conceptual
time.Industries are basically meant for production
model of a machine which would be capable of
of useful goods and services at low production
performing different operations simultaneously
cost, machinery cost and low inventory cost.
and is also economically efficient. In this
Today in this world every task has been made
machine we are actually giving drive to the main
quicker and fast due to technology advancement
shaft to which sub shafts are connected to have
but this advancement also demands huge
power through gear and lever mechanism. The
investments and expenditure. Every industry
rest of the operations are attached to the main
desires to make high productivity rate
shaft with the help of spur
maintaining the quality and standard of the
product at low average cost. In an industry a
1. Introduction
considerable portion of investment is being made
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for machinery installation. So in this project,
work is proposed where a machine is designed
which can perform operations like drilling,
sawing, grinding and milling which are lathe
operations done at different working centers, to
be used simultaneously which implies that
industrialist will not have to pay for machine
performing above tasks individually for operating
operation simultaneously. Economics of
manufacturing: According to some economists,
manufacturing is a wealth-producing sector of an
economy, whereas a service sector tends to be
wealth consuming. Emerging technologies have
provided some new growth in advanced
manufacturing employment opportunities in the
Manufacturing Belt in the United States.
Manufacturing provides important material
support for national infrastructure and for
national defense.
Before starting the work, we have
undergone through many research papers which
indicates that for a production based industries
machine installation is a tricky task as many
factor being associated with it such as power
consumption (electricity bill per machine),
maintenance cost, no. of units produced per
machine i.e. capacity of machine, time
consumption and many more.
2. Experimental Setup
In this experiment set up we have 3 shafts. In
which we have a main shaft and 2 sub shafts.
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One shaft is connected with the main shaft
through which other 2 are connected via gear
locking arrangements. These gear locking
arrangements include a sleeve on which a large
driver gear is fixed and the sleeve can move
through a predefined distance over the main
shaft. The 2 extreme positions of the sleeve are
bolted and from those positions gears of the sub
shaft are connected. On the one end of the main
shaft bevel gear are connected and the power is
drawn to the spindle. The spindle is designed
such a way that the both milling cutter and a
chuck can be attached. The other 2 sub shafts
one is connected to a wood cutter and other one
is connected to a grinding wheel. An extra table
is fitted for the table motion. The power is
provided with a 1 HP motor and connected
through a pulley to the main shaft.
Fig 2.1 Experimental Setup
3.Experimental Methodology
First of all, make sure the sections required are
meshed well. Switching on the motor and it causes
power to be distributed into the main shaft and via
it, towards the sub shaft meshed to the main shaft.
The sub shafts consists of the grinding wheel and the
wood cutter. The drill and end mill section into
coupled into one and is connected to the main shaft
so it is able to achieve maximum power. The lever is
provided for the change of gears.
4. Results and Discussion
The fabrication was completed successfully and the
working of each sections is also doing fine. The motor
can run at nearly 1440 rpm which is enough for the
smooth working of the sections. The grinding wheel is
selected in such a way that the wheel is capable to grind
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even mild steel. The cutter section smoothly cuts through 5. Design & Development Of Multi Purpose
the wood with great efficiency. The drill cum mill section
can function on the mild steel material. Portable Machine By Kevin Patel

5. Conclusion Reference Books

We can see that all the production based
industries wanted low production cost and high 1. “PSG Data Book” , Coimbatore
work rate which is possible through the university
utilization of multipurpose operating machine 2. K. Mehta “Machine tool design” 2 nd
which will use less power as well as less time,
since this machine provides working at different Edition
centers, it really reduces the time consumption
upto appreciable limit. In an industry a 3. R. K Rajput “Machine tools” 5th Edition
considerable portion of investment is being made
for machinery installation. So in this project we
have proposed a machine which can perform
operations like drilling, sawing, grinding and
milling at different working centers
simultaneously which implies that industrialist
does not have to pay for machine performing
above tasks individually for operating operation
simultaneously and also a single man is required
to work the machine
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