DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION IN PRODUCTION OF AIR RECEIVERS

The competitive environment in engineering drags to optimize the material and processing cost of air receivers. TRIZ (Theory to resolve inventive problems), a Russian concept and Design for manufacturing principles have been utilized for the arrival of solution. So far these concepts were used individually and are rare to find the synergistic approach. This paper proposes to integrate the benefits of TRIZ with DFM under a single roof in such a way that TRIZ gives the innovative solutions while DFM applies its design and manufacturing rules to narrow down in finding the exact solution. A case study has been taken in a fabrication sector for the design of dished ends of an air receiver and the existing elliptical type has been replaced with hemispherical type. As a result of this implementation the material and processing cost was significantly reduced. The present work gives an outline about the flexibility of the application of TRIZ with DFM for optimizing the design and process requirements