International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology

Authors
Megha G Hegde, Shakunthala IC, Gangadhar Hegde, Prof. Anil Kumar PR, Prof. T Venkate Gowda

Abstract
Gear cover is very important part of the gear transmission system, where the gear gets fixed inside firmly. It should be accurately machined with the acceptable tolerance. Also the fluctuations of dimensions in work-piece to work piece should be minimum so That it will be easier to assemble the gears inside the gear cover perfectly. This casted gear cover component requires machining (Facing, Drilling, Tapping, Boring, Counter Boring operations as per the requirement at each faces) on four sides. At present the industry is utilizing 3 separate fixtures for machining of all four sides of the die casted Aluminium gear cover component. Due to this, the maintenance of accuracy of the machining becomes the burden on the operator to adjust the fixtures each time. This increase the setting time, handling time, tool change time. Also the cost per component increases. The aim of this project is to design and development of a single new fixture connected to turret which replaces the old three fixtures for machining operation using designing software’s i.e. Pro ENGINEERING, AutoCAD and analysis using ANSYS, which can eliminate the said problems. Also costing analysis is carried out by comparing old and newly designed fixture. The production rate will also increase up to 50% and cost per component machining decreases, which is quite objective. Thus, we are designing the fixture for such gear cover component machining for 2-wheeler excel TVS vehicle.