Productivity Enhancement by Designing Fixture, SMED Technique for Manufacturing HSTC Cross Slide

Abstract

Over the past century, manufacturing has made substantial progress. New machine tools, high performance cutting tools, and modern manufacturing processes facilitate today's industries to make parts more rapidly and better than ever before. HSTC cross slide is a component which is used in CNC machine in Manufacturing Company. Presently HSTC cross slide component machined on three different machines. The tools like SMED technique and Time Study were used for analyzing the manufacturing process of HSTC cross slide. The objective is to optimize the Cycle Time, Setup Time, operational cost and optimization of the process to improve productivity and reduce the operational cost. The result obtained after implementing SMED technique and new fixture showed that the Cycle time is reduced from 22.71hrs to 14.7hrs, Setup time is reduced from 7.25hrs to 2.41hrs, and hence Productivity is increased from 52.84% to 81.63%. Keywords: Fixture Design, SMED technique, Time study, Process optimization.