Ahmedabad: Tinkerer’s team from Gujarat Technological University (GTU) reached in top 10 and won Prize worth of INR 10,000 & certificate. The tinkerer’s team demonstrated to make automatic ball pen making and packaging machine. The closing ceremony was presided over by Dr. M P Poonia, Vice Chairman, AICTE. Dr. Prashant Bhalla, President, MREI; Mr. Katsunori Ushiku, Managing Director, MEI; Mr. Masanori Tanimoto, MEC Japan; Mr. Hisahiro Nishimoto; and the senior leadership teams of Mitsubishi were also present.
This time Mitsubishi electric cup national level competition for factory automation was something special for GTU because this year 3 teams from the state participated among top 35 teams from all over India. In the selected teams; three teams are from Gujarat Technological University (GTU) & GTU affiliated colleges. GTU community Innovation and co-creation center (CiC3) a part of GTU innovation Council (GIC) imparted training to the students of engineering colleges to participate such competitions under the guidance of Faculty Guide / Mentro Prof. Raj Hakani. GIC gave special training to the students and created tinkerer’s team for the competition.This was stated by Prof.(Dr) Navin Sheth, Vice Chancellor of GTU.
Team comprising of Meet Patel (Mechanical – Alpha College of Engineering), Meet Panchal (IC – Government Engineering College – Gandhinagar), Sahil Kalal (Mechanical – B.H. Gardi College, Rajkot), Deep Bhadania(Electrical – VGEC), Ashish Mecwan (Electrical – VGEC). Faculty Mentor : Mr. Raj Hakani (Electronics, CiC3 – GTU)
Description: Automatic Ball pen making and packaging machine is meant for making use and throw Ball point pen assembling and packaging it. Machine is designed for small scale business which currently uses manual machines for manufacturing. Machine will able to assemble pen, fill ink & final packaging. Machine will test assembled product by various tests. Machine can be controlled and monitor by Web interface as well as Human Machine Interface.
Problem: Ball pen making industry is essential for satisfying various type of writing needs of an end customer. Machines that big companies like Uniball, Luxor uses cannot afford by small businesses which want to manufacture ball point pen. In small scale manual machines are available in different for each process of Pen making. For small business there is no unified solution for manufacturing.
The Solution: Machine is specially designed for small scale businesses which want to manufacture ball point pen. Machine will be unified and one platform solution that overcomes problems of conventional manual machine like lower production rate, man power requirement. Internet of Things will be implemented for remote access & monitoring of machine.
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