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Fore hearth in Glass Conditioning Process
A refractory channel whose function is to receive molten glass from
furnace, reduce its temperature to desired level and discharge it to
the feeder mechanism at a uniform temperature.
Fore hearth
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Fore Hearth Construction
1. Sub Structure Steel Assembly
2. Sub Structure Insulation Assembly
3. Channel Assembly
4. Burner Course Assembly
5. Roof Course Assembly
6. Super Structure Insulation Assembly
7. Super Structure Steel Assembly
8. Burner Piping Assembly
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The Need
• Design to be manufactured across the globe
• Product optimization & Standardization
• To Increase the Productivity & reducing the routine
work
• Knowledge capturing
• Reusing the design
• To increase the product ranges to suit the new
customer requirements
• Integrating the design process with PDM
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Design Process
Design Automation Process
Design Process Of FDA
Application
Customer Requirements to Emhart
Specification preparation by Emhart
Designer User Inputs to FDA Application
Generation of Quotation Layout
Customer
Approval
No
Yes
Generation of All Production
Drawings
Insulation Report Generation
Installation & Transportation
Drawings
Moving Complete
project to Intra link
Database Database
Manual Design Process
FDA
Application
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Development Platform
Software
• Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 (32 bit)
• Java 1.5
• Oracle 9i
Production Hardware
• Intel Xeon processor
• RAM : 4 GB
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Product Complexity
• Maintaining model history by using database (Legacy Data)
• Generating generic parametric library that supports
generation of all possible configurations of fore hearth.
• Tailor making the components to satisfy the Pro/ Wind
Chill conditions
• Execution of Pro/E tasks at application runtime, like..
• Renaming of all used components
• Deletion of un used model tree objects
• Dynamic assembling based on the requirement
• Insulation assembly & report generation
• Generation of models in metric & Imperial units.
• Interdependency between components
s+c.avi
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Salient Features of Application
• Modular based assembly generation
• Legacy data base
• generating Input report for user validation before going for
model generation.
• Even a non designer can handle the application, if he had
specification sheet.
• Compliance of part numbering system to suit with Pro Wind-chill
specifications.
• Generation of Quotation & Installation layouts
• Calculation of insulation material
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Before Design
Automation
After Design
Automation
Projects
Efforts 1056 Man Hours 4 Man Hours
Duration 66 Days 1 days
Quotations
Efforts 120 Man Hours 4 Man Hours
Duration 15 Days 1 days
Design Cycle Time
