DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A SHEARING MACHINE FOR GLASS FIBER SLEEVES USING STEPPER MOTOR AND PLC

Abhishek Gaonkar, Sahil Kerkar, Nandan Shirodkar, Vikesh Hadfadkar, Deu Sangelkar

Abstract: This paper gives the reader an insight in to the work we went through to invent the concept for an automated fiber glass sleeve cutting machine. The challenge given to us by the Industry was to design and fabricate the shearing machine that can cut fiber glass sleeves in a given desired length automatically on a large scale. The length of the sleeve given to us is in range of 20mm50mm. We set out to invent a simple but strong concept resulting in a machine with minimal complexity which will reduce the cost of production, time required to cut the sleeve and also improve the ease of maintenance. This paper is testament to how we achieved a supposedly complex automation using simple mechanical automation. To support our concept we also set out to fabricate a proposed machine to prove this concept will work.

Keywords: Shearing, Plc, Fiber glass sleeves, Ladder programming, Hmi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0401014