| Author | Sunan Maliwong |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Science in Mechatronics, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | In slider fabrication manufacturing, there are many kind of machine which use to support production line and every time when we order the new machine is always facing with problem about machine miss requirement. It is major cause that effect to time and cost consumption for debugging these machines after investigate the root cause we found that communication between machine maker and user is not clarify because of basic of knowledge are different such as chemical engineer dealing with mechanical engineer, the effect from these problem are the cause to make the first prototype from machine maker cannot immediately implementation and it will take long time to resolve design then trial and error.
In many step of machine design and development there is an essential need to show the model and principles in order to test and evaluation conceptual idea. In this situation the prototype model is built for transform the user requirement means process specification into machine specification. Thus, this research will be developing the modular prototype machine which easier for engineer and or frontline worker to play and learn with it in order to design the idea to become machine specification. The main goal with thesis, which include two benefits are time and cost saving due to the requirement between user and machine maker has been clarify by using modular prototype machine design to build the example physical prototype for communication with machine maker. This physical prototype was translated the verbal of user requirement to be physical thing then release the machine specification from this prototype. Normally, in phase of functional machine design the maker will try to understand verbal requirement from user but sometime it not enough information to design. Therefore, if the users can be made physical prototype by themselves it is better way to example for machine maker to following and avoid the trial and error in case of misunderstand then consequence is user can be shorten the time and lower cost for new machine order.
Thus, the purpose of this thesis is try to improve the time and cost reduce by study the step to gathering the machine’s requirement before order the new machine by using the modular prototype machine design approach to make the physical prototype by user then evaluation and testing in order to avoid the over design machine price and reduce time consumption for machine delivery. |
| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Afzulpurkar, Nitin V. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Bohez, Erik L.J.;Sarapong, Choumwong ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Western Digital – NECTEC, Thailand
AIT Fellowship; |