Case study

Improving the availability of shot-

blasting plant

Presented By:-
Avneesh Kumar Rajput 08
Anshul Medatwal 06
Yash shekhar 10
Taskhir Noori 07
Rajeev Ranjan 09
 Plant objective
 To short blasting the surface of
switch gear components to increase
their life after painting
 The first operation was blasting of

surface with grit.

 Since this was the first operation, so

failure of this caused bottleneck in

production
The downtime contribution of the plant
was 8% around 387 hours.
 Problems
 Five major assemblies in the first
operation plant were

 Vibrator assemblies
 Chamber

 Regenerator assembly

 Reclaimer

 Control valves
 Pareto analysis
S.NO NAME OF FREQUEN TOTAL PERCEN
ASSEMBLY CY DOWNTIM TAGE
E (hours)
1 VIBRATOR 8 66.50 17.18
2 CHAMBER 18 197.50 51.02
3 Regenerat 44 94.75 24.50
or
4 Reclaimer 6 24.75 6.40
5 Control 3 3.50 0.90
valves
6 total 387.00 100
 Pareto Analysis
S.NO Name Frequen Total Percent
of cy Downti age
Assemb me
ly
1 floor 11 172.5 87.34

2 Shot 4 10.5 5.32

blasting
gun
3 Miscella 3 14.5 7.34
neous
 FLOOR
 Floor of chamber called waffle floor
assembly contains small hoppers
each with small hole in bottom
 Perforated steel plate on top of

hopper to form actual floor space

 Duct openings present in floor

hoppers
 Main entry of air was there for each

row
 Floor solutions
 Pocket holes of the floor were
cleared
 Duct opening were also thoroughly

cleared
 Main entry was blocked but was not

cleaned was not noticed because of

the side being covered by rubber
sheets
 Main Solution
 Cleaning of main air entries for each
rows in the floor area of the chamber

 Main because prior to it

advancements were there but no
results
 Analysis After improvement
S.NO NAME OF FREQUEN TOTAL PERCEN
ASSEMBLY CY DOWNTIM TAGE
E (hours)
1 Vibrator 22 105.50 52.16
2 Regenerat 25 45.50 22.50
or
3 Reclaimer 11 20.50 10.14
4 Control 4 19.75 9.76
valves
5 Chamber 5 11.00 5.44

6 Total 202.25 100

THANKS