Author : Pooja C. Patil , Y. B. Mathur and Abdul Samad

The company Atlas Copco specializes in making the water well rigs. The main concern faced by the company was making the space available for the assembly of the water well rigs. The material stored in the warehouse of the company utilizes a lot of space. With the help of this project the space management of the company’s warehouse is done and the floor area is made available. Mainly, on this project two machines TH10 and DB40K are considered. With increase in demand, the production rate was needed to be increased. For making this possible, the floor space was required to be managed accordingly. In the present research work, the Kardex shuttle system was introduced which is a vertical storage system and the increased the floor space from 35% to 71%, the production rate of the company was also raised and helped the company to increase their sales from 2.25Crores to 6.75Crores.

Keywords: Assembly, Carousal System, DB40K, Kardex Shuttle System, TH10.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.1 (Feb-2016)