DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF PROTOTYPE OF MULTIPURPOSE MACHINE FOR SHEET METAL OPERATIONS

Awez Inamdar, Rahul Gupta, Prasad Kawli, Rohan Malekar

Abstract: Sheet metal is basically a thin sheet of metal by using several operations. Nowadays it has become one of the most important and fundamental forms in metalworking.[10] the advantage of sheet metal is that it can be bent into variety of desired shapes. Lots of everyday objects are being manufactured using sheet metal. Sheet metal is mainly used for various aerodynamically shaped car bodies, airplane wings, architecture and many other applications.[9] dent removing/rolling, cutting and v-grooving are the most widely used operations in the fabrication industry. The conventional machines could only carry out any of the above operations simultaneously. If these operations can be done on a single machine, it would not only make work quite easy and less tedious but also increases profitability .moreover, conventional machines are often hand operated for small scale industry applications. Also the time taken on these separate machines that is the overall lead time decreases by making them power operated, resulting in lower cost and higher productivity. Our project is to encompass these operations onto a single machine successfully.

Keywords: Sheet Metal, Rolling, Cutting, V-Grooving

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0503019