PROCESS PARAMETER SETTING FOR RUBBER CUTTING MACHINE USING TAGUCHI TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Rubber is a natural substance that we get in the forests, we can obtain these exudations from tropical plants, rubber includes natural and synthetic rubber. Synthetic rubber are generally made by non-original product, say artificial petrochemical products. Rubbers find wide applications in automobiles, aerospace, electrical and many other manufacturing industries, for example tires, wipers, textile industry rollers, printing press, vibration isolators, etc. So rubbers find wide variety of applications in engineering field. Hence the parameters which affects the manufacturing of rubbers is to be studied. The parameters which affects manufacturing of rubber on lathe is analyzed in this project and its behavior is been studied. The parameters included cutting speed, feed and depth of cut on Ebonite rubber roller which is used in printing machine rollers. Parameters were varied and optimum parameters were found out using Design of Experiment (Taguchi technique), MINITAB 16 software and also the results were compared with the experimental results( Surface Roughness test using Taylor Hobson testing machine). These results were satisfactory, which saved the material wastage while manufacturing and ultimately the manufacturing cost was reduced. Labor time and lathe machine setting time was also reduced. Studying of these parameters are vital and most influencing in manufacturing of rubber products and there is wide further scope for studying of other parameters influencing machining of rubber.