EIGHTH WEEK

EIGHTH WEEK

 We started the week on monday, with Julen as always. But it was a little bit different because we read the stories about maleness. And we chose one to be read in Areto nagusia.

We had two exams on tuesday, with Gaizka. The first was about cutting and bending forces and the second was about answering some oral cuestions about our die, and project in general.
 For example:
Where can we find docks, in which catalogue?
What is the measure of the matrix?

Our group answered succesfully most of the questions.
This week is one of the most stressful week of the course because we have to finnish the project and make a presentation about it.

In the current week we must present our final project before a lot of people (Professors, students, and judges). We must explain stuff linked to design process, for instance capacities, weight, length, width, performance, quality of manufactured pieces. However we had to fill our technical support with other subjects such as: Market Study, Analysis and faults and effects and mathematical calculation.

Next, We are going to show some pictures of the final product (Our piece of equipment)

Here now , we are going to make a brief description about how our die works and their main components:

Springs: This component is located between two plates, one is in the top and the second one is located in the medium part. Its principal performance is to separate the cut area from the punches because when the process of cutting happens the sheet metal to be cut and the punch are used to attach each other. Next we can see a commercial spring:

                                             

Spike: This component helps the operator to handle the entire piece of equipment or die, which is very heavy and impossible to remove easily, this way the operator can do inspections and maintenance to the die. This element is bolted in the upper side of the die and next can be moved with a forklift.

                                                     

Eyebolt:  This element is bolted on the die's sideways and owns a high capacity to resist huge loads; it is usually used to handle and lift piece of equipment, machinary in order to offer maintenance, overhalls, inspections and other tasks. 

Matrix: This piece of metal is highly significant at the moment of cutting sheet metals or do other operations like bending, sheet metal forming. It is made of special materials and suffers different treatments in order to harden their structure.

Our die has different dimentions such as: Length_: 500 mm; Width: 350mm ; Height: 245mm. Our die has a height equivalent to 230mm when it is totally close.

 Moreover we had the chance to add the market study to our final technical report, there we talked about the responsabilities of each of us and designed an organigram.

In this organigram we assigned a position to each member of our company within the created areas.

                                               


On the other hand, we remind people of social responsibility and showed our strategy plan to deploy it in every single of our operations. We are engaged with  the ecological caring, responsibility with people because they are the most valuable asset in our operations, and  our relationship with other business located in the place we work.

                                                  

Finally, friday came and we gave our speech to the public  (professors, students, external judges and other people). At first hand one member of our teamwork had to talk about how we created our company , the critiria that we have followed in order to create our company, later another member talked about how important a die can be in our daily basis. The third member of our team had the opportunity to talk about the design of the die in a complete way, giving all details and followed criterias to achieve our goal.

After giving all our speech the judges started to ask lots of questions about the design process , for example: materials, calculations, properties of our die, dimentions. We also had the chance to reply some of them and asked some doubts that we had. The experience was very productive and we obtained more knowledge linked to construction aspects, materials and recommendation at the moment of design this kind of machinary.