Forehearth Design Automation
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This document discusses the design automation of fore hearths used in glass conditioning processes. It aims to standardize and optimize fore hearth design globally by capturing knowledge, reusing designs, and increasing product ranges through a design automation application. The application allows non-designers to generate fore hearth models, drawings, reports, and layouts from customer specifications. It reduces manual design efforts and cycle times through a modular parametric library approach integrated with databases.
Forehearth Design Automation
- 1. go! out of your mind. Design Automation of Fore hearth
- 2. go! out of your mind. Fore hearth in Glass Conditioning Process A refractory channel whose function is to receive molten glass from furnace, reduce its temperature to desired level and discharge it to the feeder mechanism at a uniform temperature. Fore hearth
- 3. go! out of your mind. Fore Hearth Construction 1. Sub Structure Steel Assembly 2. Sub Structure Insulation Assembly 3. Channel Assembly 4. Burner Course Assembly 5. Roof Course Assembly 6. Super Structure Insulation Assembly 7. Super Structure Steel Assembly 8. Burner Piping Assembly 3 2 1 4 5 7 8
- 4. go! out of your mind. The Need Design to be manufactured across the globe Product optimization & Standardization To Increase the Productivity & reducing the routine work Knowledge capturing Reusing the design To increase the product ranges to suit the new customer requirements Integrating the design process with PDM
- 5. go! out of your mind. Design Process Design Automation Process Design Process Of FDA Application Customer Requirements to Emhart Specification preparation by Emhart Designer User Inputs to FDA Application Generation of Quotation Layout Customer Approval No Yes Generation of All Production Drawings Insulation Report Generation Installation & Transportation Drawings Moving Complete project to Intra link Database Database Manual Design Process FDA Application
- 6. go! out of your mind. Development Platform Software Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 (32 bit) Java 1.5 Oracle 9i Production Hardware Intel Xeon processor RAM : 4 GB
- 7. go! out of your mind. Product Complexity Maintaining model history by using database (Legacy Data) Generating generic parametric library that supports generation of all possible configurations of fore hearth. Tailor making the components to satisfy the Pro/ Wind Chill conditions Execution of Pro/E tasks at application runtime, like.. Renaming of all used components Deletion of un used model tree objects Dynamic assembling based on the requirement Insulation assembly & report generation Generation of models in metric & Imperial units. Interdependency between components s+c.avi
- 8. go! out of your mind. Salient Features of Application Modular based assembly generation Legacy data base generating Input report for user validation before going for model generation. Even a non designer can handle the application, if he had specification sheet. Compliance of part numbering system to suit with Pro Wind-chill specifications. Generation of Quotation & Installation layouts Calculation of insulation material
- 9. go! out of your mind. Before Design Automation After Design Automation Projects Efforts 1056 Man Hours 4 Man Hours Duration 66 Days 1 days Quotations Efforts 120 Man Hours 4 Man Hours Duration 15 Days 1 days Design Cycle Time