| Author | Mendis, Chatura Lavanga |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Master of Engineering in
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Mosaic has been used as a creation of art, from ancient times till the present day, and the process of creating mosaic had been improving from manual methods to automated assembly mosaic design. Various automated assembly methods were developed throughout time based on various concepts from fixed position assembly concepts to product flow-based assembly concepts and these developed systems were designed to assemble tile of various shapes and tile sizes and based on custom mosaic design. One aspect research failed to look into was controlling the tile gap between tiles when tiles were assembled by product flow-based system for custom mosaic creation. In present-day systems used fixed pallets to control tile gaps between tiles. The problem arises when it comes to custom mosaic assembly of multiple size tiles, since the exact position of specific tile size is not pre-defined, so a fixed pallet cannot be used in these circumstances. As the quality of the mosaic art will depend upon the controlled gap between tiles. This research intends to develop a concept for product flow-based pallet assembly for multiple-size tile custom mosaic design to control the gap between tiles. The developed concept consists of a mosaic pallet frame and tile separator pins. The designed tile separator pins will be inserted into the mosaic pallet, before placing tiles on to the pallet. To test the implementation of the developed concept a product flow-based row by row assembly machine was developed. Row by row assembly is able to insert the separator pins at a desired location and orientations in mosaic pallet with the help of combined magazine of both T and cross pins before the tiles were placed on it. The development of product flow-based pallet assembly for multiple-size tile custom mosaic design was successfully implemented to increase its efficiency. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Pisut Koomsap; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Huynh Trung Luong;Bohez, Erik L. J. ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT Fellowship; |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Eng.) -- Asian Institute of Technology, 2019 |