DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AN ASSEMBLY FIXTURE FOR THE COLUMN OF A CNC HORIZONTAL MACHINING CENTRE
| Author(s) | : | Jithin N S, N Govardhanan, Chandra kumar R |
| Institution | : | Department of Mechanical Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India |
| Published In | : | Vol. 1, Issue 9 — September 2014 |
| Page No. | : | 30-37 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
This work is carried out to design and analyse an assembly fixture for the column used in a CNC horizontalmachining centre. Here the efforts are made to reduce overall set up time required for assembling the column in themachine. The objective was to study the existing mechanism and identifying critical parameters which influence thedesign of the assembly fixture. In this process, various new concepts were generated and comparison is made betweenthem. A systematic new product design approach has been followed for generating new assembly fixture concepts. In thisprocess, various tools & techniques such as Concept Classification Tree, Concept Combination Table and ConceptScoring Matrix are used. 4 different assembly fixture concepts were generated and best concept is selected with help ofabove stated tools. System design, detail design of the selected concept was carried out and 3D modelling was doneusing PTC Creo Elements Direct Modelling 17.0. Two dimensional manufacturing drawing of the fixture subcomponents were generated in the last stage of design process.
Jithin N S, N Govardhanan, Chandra kumar R, “DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AN ASSEMBLY FIXTURE FOR THE COLUMN OF A CNC HORIZONTAL MACHINING CENTRE”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 9, pp. 30-37, September 2014.
