Mini pneumatic presses and hand held special tools

Built a series of very small pneumatic presses and hand held special tools for an automotive company. Operators needed their fatigue reduced for jobs like circlip insertion, bearing pressing, bimetallic biush pressing, diesel pump priming, pneumatic clamps for a sub assembly work, fixtures, etc. Very small work but interesting as it involved a lot of study into how the operator assembled a particular component, how he held it, how the component was placed in his work bench, ergonomics of that particular component when it was placed in the automobile for example-the priming tool for diesel pump was to to be used after the pump was installed in the vehicle so holding the tool while priming was being done was required. We had to 'fix' the tool on the vehicle's exhaust while priming and for this we had to measure to take measurements while the vehicle was moving in the assembly line.

XYZ platform

Something which I'm developing for production. An XYZ platform for non-contact applications. Powered by Allen Bradley servos and PLCs, the XYZ platform is built on a Aluminum profile frame. Can be used for a lot non-contact industrial applications. 

Gear dispensing system

An indexing table with a pneumatic arm for "pushing" out the bottom most gear in the stacks. Gears are stacked one over the other on aN indexing plate powered by an induction motor. An OMRON proximity sensor is used for stopping each stack in front of the pneumatic arm so bottom most gear is pushed out every time the pneumatic arm operated. The top of each stack has a plate with internal gear tooth cut in it. This ensures only that particular gear type can be stacked in that particular row.

Tyre tube valve auto pick and place system

An XY table+ pick and place system combo for a tube/tyre manufacturer. Installed in their tube extruder line. A tray with valves placed in a 11x11 matrix is placed on a stepper motor controlled XY table. A pneumatic powered rack moves a pinion connected to a pick and place arm. Arm has a FESTO pneumatic gripper with custom fingers which have grooved cut in them for grip. Zeron welds used, all machined components mounted on a CNC machined plated.

Hitch Kitchen

A unique product in the sense that I totally couldn't relate to this. Never having traveled around the country in a SUV and definitely never have taken my kitchen around. Designed and built this for an American customer. Foldable mini, mobile kitchen containing space for utensils, drinking water tank, dirty(from the sink) water reservoir, stainless steel sink with hand pump as tap for washing and a space for the stove and LPG cylinder. The whole unit has a subframe which can be mounted on the rear of a SUV.

Multi-tool

Always a challenge and pleasure to work on small, multi featured mechanisms. Developednfor a customer in Germany but unfortunately never got made. Hope to make at least a few prototypes soon. Contain small the usual multi tool features like peeler, screw driver, can opener, hacksaw, knife, scissors, etc. What was included was a torx holder and Allen key holder. Included a rubber grip and a unique wrist gauntlet for holding the tool.