Random parts exiting the conveyor belt at the end of the zinc line in the tumble room are damaged, misplaced and not fully and/or consistently dried. This may lead to rusting, defective parts, and wasted man hours and company resources (company losses).

 Scope:

Deliverables

• Improve dryer system at the exit end of the zinc line to ensure parts are fully dry.
• Consider conveyor and blow off at the exit of the zinc line.
• Parts must be dry exiting system
• Must consider part orientation and stacking
• Design and implement an inspection/test check for desired dryness
• Improve packing methods into baskets
• Consider a system where the parts do not fall into the basket from the current height. Noted defects can be partly attributed to this abrasive process (Figure 3).
• Design out any failure modes that exist within that section of the process
• Prevent parts from getting stuck to the sides, or the conveyor belt
• Prevent parts from falling off and outside the system of concern

Solution

Prototyping and Testing

Dummy Run

Final Prototyping

Implementation