A locust beans cubing machine was developed and its performance evaluated in this study. The machine is made up of three distinct and mutually controlled parts: The grinding part, the extrusion part, and the cutting part. Fermented locust beans is fed into the grinding part where they are ground and then moved to the extrusion compartment where it is extruded
African locust beans (Parkia biglobosa) have a rich nutritional content and distinctive flavour, which makes it useful as a food condiment. However, its traditional processing is inefficient and labour-intensive. Hence, this study aims to design and simulate a locust bean processing plant to address challenges posed by conventional methods of locust bean production, including low production, poor packaging, seed degradation,
In recent times, South Africa has been experiencing power outages, which has significant effect on businesses and economic wellbeing of the nation. To address this challenge, this study develops a maintenance framework that power generating industries in South Africa can implement. Primary data was collected from company X that is a major subsidiary of the power generating industry in South
ABSTRACT— The Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology has been widely adopted in most convectional machines commonly used in manufacturing workshop, to automate, monitor, and control a machine’s movements. This is to promote time and cost effectiveness in manufacturing operation of such machines to achieve generation of high precision movement of the working tools and the work piece for the realization
Abstract: The bottle washing machine is type of machine used in removing bottle contaminants. This report includes the technical description of the bottle washing machine. It discusses the basic principles and theory of operation of the bottle washing machine, detailed description for the equipment and equations governing the variables of bottle washing machine showing all the mechanical parts of the
Abstract: The quest for improved product quality, operational efficiency as well as time effectiveness during manufacturing operations triggered the possibility of exploring the potentials of the Computer Numerical Control (CNC) and laser technologies. This study provides the design analysis of a of CNC laser cutting and engraving machine. The design encompasses the axes configuration, components analysis and dimensioning, as well
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