Design and Development of Special Purpose Machine for Sensor Hole Punching and Bracket Pasting Operation

Now a days, automation plays a vital role in industries and can be obtained with a low cost, reduced time, high quality, reliability, safety for the employee. Although automotive industry is one of the world's most dynamic and competitive industries; but being under continuous pressure to improve performance in a highly competitive, cost sensitive environment. In the wake of guiding principles like lean production, Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and World Class Performance (WCP), condition monitoring has become a key factor and Special Purpose Machine (SPM) has been dealing with main manufacturers in Europe and Asia for many years. This paper proposes the design of special purpose machine to execute the operation of sensor hole punching and bracket pasting. This method replaces manual method which consumes a lot of time and punches only 60 parts per day. The proposed method is cost efficient, saves a lot of valuable time and contributes to punch 200 parts per day. The detailed designing and development of Special Purpose Machine sensor hole punching and bracket pasting considering Mechanical, Pneumatic & Electrical aspects and PLC are the special contributions of this paper.