Design and Analysis of an Efficient Automatic Glove Packing Machine

Wang, Elijah Da Jiong (2022) Design and Analysis of an Efficient Automatic Glove Packing Machine. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

The issue of the overreliance on manual labour is still active in the glove industry. Although industrial glove packing machine is available in the current market, the packing machine is still limited to offline packing where stripped gloves had to be manually placed on the packing machine. The transition of gloves from the stripping machine to the offline glove packing machine increases the production time, where the production process should be continuous. To solve the current problems, an automatic glove packing machine is designed using computer-aided design software (SolidWorks), and the simulations are conducted in ANSYS using finite element analysis. This project's primary focus is to automate the glove packing process by replacing manual packing with an automatic glove packing machine. The scope of the project is limited to the glove industry and packing machines. By reviewing prior works, a box-type glove packing configuration is chosen where the control system of the packing machine utilises a PLC. The working principle starts at the glove stripping station, where a conveyor collects the stack of gloves and transports it to the packing location. When the sensor senses the presence of the stacked gloves, a piston pushes an empty box out of the cartridge. The other piston pushes 2 stacks of gloves at a time into the box. The second conveyor is activated and moves the sealing station, where a claw mechanism is used to close the box's right, left and top flaps. The glove packing process is repeated as the box filled with the glove moves out of the conveyor. To test the proposed design, finite element analysis is used to validate and improve the glove packing machine design where simulation tools such as mesh refinement, stress analysis, structural failure analysis, convergence study, evaluation of factor of safety are implemented.