About the Practice
Problem Statement:

• Anagarbatti making worker‐ who are mostly women and children‐ has to bend down and work on a wooden board for 8 to 10 hours a day in order to roll 5,000 Agarbatti. This kind of hard labor leads to spinal pain, abdominal pain and pain in the hands and legs

Detail:

This prototype aims to mitigate this hardship of agarbatti workers through a low cost agarbattimaker which can be used at home also to make agarbattis. This machine is a low‐ cost, semi‐automatic and hand drivenmachine whichmay double the production capacity. The machine is ergonomically designed to mitigate back pain and other spinal problems. Using thismachine, a woman may be able to roll about 6000 sticks a day. The prototype consists of a roller mechanism in which dough is fed. In the machine, the black agarbatti paste is flattened using calendar rolling systems. The flat paste is then cut into strips of required width using cutting roller, which is later wrapped around the bamboo stick using wooden roller. The final assembly consists of rollers made up of wood, rubber conveyor belts, steel pipes. Therefore, owing to the simple component and assembly the cost of final machine may be low


About the Innovator

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Keshav G and Damodaran Murali
Address: IIT Gandhinagar
City: Gandhinagar
State: • Gandhinagar
PIN Code 382355

Practice Details

Link: • Semi-Automatic system enables controlled output. • Ergonomic design enables to understand the working of machine to the workers working on it. • Has an optimal output of 6000 anagarbatti per day
Manufacturing Capacity: a) Turnkey solution, e) Franchising
Problem Scale: Daily wage workers, GruhUdhyog workers
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GIAN Reference: GIAN/UAL/1310
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