Lastly, for the safety criteria, from the observation, the current equipment not has its own storage place when not in used. The equipment will just left on the table or pins
bins. It will increase possibility for operator to get injured since the equipment has open sharp edges of nails.
4.2 Creation of the Jig Fixture
Based on the current situation analysis, we can see that current practice of pin ejection need some improvement. Therefore, several ideas were created to design the
jig. From the brainstorming three designs were discussed.
4.2.1 Design Jig 1
Figure 4.2:Sketch Design Jig 1
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Figure 4.3: 2D AutoCAD Jig 1
Figure 4.4: Prototype Jig 1
For Jig 1, the idea was based on the concept of comb but ‘close comb’. It was called ‘close comb’ because at every end of comb teeth are close. Only the gap between
teeth that have a slot gap will hold the pins when it was aligned according to the pin lines.
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This design dimension is 415x330mm which is bigger than the size of base plate. The design was designed bigger for the purpose of easy slotting the pins into the comb
teethes. The prototype was made from acrylic material and cuts using laser cutting machine. The size of teeth gap is 5mm. The teethes length is 10mm and the height is
290mm. The prototype was brought to the operation line on 23
rd
July 2014. Unfortunately, after the prototype was tested at the operation line, the pins cannot be eject from the base
plate. This is due to small size of teethes gaps makes the pin cannot properly slotting into the teethes. Other than that, the teeth lines are inconsistent and not standardize for each
row. Therefore, the jig cannot be insert into the pin lines. The QCDMS criteria cannot be evaluated since the operation was unsuccessful and
it shows that the jig is fail to perform the ejection process.
4.2.2 Design Jig 2
Figure 2: Sketch Design Jig 2
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Figure 3: AutoCAD Design Jig 2
Figure 4: Prototype Jig 2 Design Jig 2 was also based on the concept of comb. The comb teeth will be used
to hold the pins and the pull force will eject the pins from the base plate. The dimension of this jig is 423x360mm. It consist of 25 teethes which have 24 slots that gap 2mm each. The
teeth length is 15x280mm. The remaining height of 80mm on the top of the jig is for the comb holder.
For this prototype, it was made from 100mm thickness of acrylic material and cuts using laser cutting machine at Bengkel Fakulti Kejuruteraan Pembuatan. The AutoCAD
design was installed into the machine and by the help of machine’s technician, the machine operate the cutting operation accordingly.
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After fabrication of prototype was done, a trial session was conducted for 10 base plates and by using same operator as the previous session. The result of trial session is
shown in Table 4.3.
Table 4.3: Jig 2 Trial Cycle Time Data
No Cycle time second
Operator 1 25 months experience
Operator 2 8 months experience
Operator 3 29 months experience
1 49.4
50.2 46.9
2 42.6
51.3 43.8
3 43.1
43.5 49.4
4 40.2
45.7 45.6
5 38.2
51.7 39.6
6 44.2
49.4 44.6
7 43.5
48.7 46.2
8 39.6
50.2 45.1
9 38.3
45.6 43.5
10 39.9
47,8 47.2
Average 41.9
43.63 45.19
