CYCLE TIME REDUCTION FROM DESIGN TO MANUFACTURING BY INTEGRATING CAD-CAM AND PROCESS PLANNING ACTIVITIES IN SMALL SCALE DIE MANUFACTURING COMPANY

In small scale industry the current environment tends to force employee to work in isolation also it observed that they works on conventional machines when CNC or VMC machines are available, this is because of some certain problems which are not analyzed properly or failure to find root cause by system. To eliminate this mentality of workers there should be close neat observation of supervisory control is essential, also it is necessary to built an error proof system which lead to develop a system which focuses on productivity & quality control. This paper deals with design of low budget system for CAD-CAM-CAPP integration for a small scale die manufacturing industry to reduce lead time during production.