Problem Statement:

Rope Making Machine requirment

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Detail:

Sending son for school - The beginning of Idea This hand operated system has one set of rotating machines viz., Main machine and opposite small machine. Main machine should be rotated by using an adult labour or experienced person while the opposite machine can be rotated with the help of anybody or even children. Sri. Pandian has 2 children. His wife and elder son were involved as family labourers for rope making. His son usually rotates the opposite machine for the purpose of finishing with strong twining. He decided to send his son to school after attaining 6 years of age. So he has to employ another labour outside his family and has to pay labour cost of Rs.40 per day. Unable to bear this expense he has been thinking the idea of automatic rotator instead of manual labour. After 1 year of thinking over this concept he hit upon the idea of fitting a "bearing ". This really served the purpose. Labour Saving Innovation Fitting a bearing in the opposite side of main machine will replace a manual labour and this facility help automating rotation and twining of rope. Sri. Pandiyan initially tried using 20 big size bearing; this is useful for 2 wide rope making for 1/4 inch rope making the twining become difficult and changed this with10 bearing and finally 7-8 bearing for fine twining of rope. 10 bearing usually help twining 50 number standard fine thread; 1 bearing usually help twining 100 number standard thread. The cost of bearing mechanism involved only Rs.55 only. Yes it requires a bearing and welded wooden stick to hold. (The bearing is welded with 2 spikes obtained from bicycle and tied with the other end of the rope). Design Improvement in the Main Machine The main machine is having bearing attached model type which is molded. If there is any damage occurs in the bearing then the entire mould part has to discard costing money and time. He has introduced small wheel models which help rotating but can be easily removed from the central wheel. Therefore any small repairs or damaged wheels alone removed keeping the main board as such. This is low cost, and easily maintained. Usually 6 bearings are fitted in the conventional main machine, and 2 bearings in opposite machine. Now the cost of main machine is Rs.300 instead of Rs.2000. This new innovation will not require major repairing cost but repairing is almost negligible. Film Rewinding Machine for Thread Winding Once the thread or rope making is completed the finished thread will be winded manually by using of 100 metre thread. By using film rewinder (obtained from cinema theatre) he completed finishing his winding work within 15 minutes for the given length of 100 metre. Day to Day Survival and Social Work Sri. Pandiyan nowadays finds difficult to market his ropes as many company made ropes are produced elsewhere. But still such hand worked ropes are preferred by some customers and therefore he takes orders of threads on weight basis. Such threads are useful for tying the bullocks, nose string of cattle and special woolen thread using human hair for aesthetic or religion purpose. From 50 kilo nylon thread he makes 1000 metre length of thread and earns Rs.500 per week by involving 2 labouerers i.e. him and his wife. Sri. Pandiyan wanted to promote one cooperative society by involving 50 rope making families. He expected Govts support for this cooperative endeavor. Due to lack of moral support from the local members he could not go further.

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Pandian S.
Address: Thambipatti Srivilliputhur Virudunagar Tamil Nadu
City: Virudhunagar
State: Tamil Nadu
PIN Code 626123

Manufacturing Capacity: b) Design Support c) Sub-contracting e) Franchising
Problem Scale: Local