Cerjakovic, E., Tufekcic D., Topcic A., Selo R.

SIVUR SOFTWARE APP ICATIO! FOR "ODE I!# OF PE!DI!# CO!VE$ER

Abstract: Management and running of technological processes of production, warehousing, packing, shipment of finished products to buyers, etc. often is not possible without appropriate transportation system in multi floors production facilities. Therefore all design processes, construction and dimensioning, of transportation systems need to be rationalize, speed up, and make them as simplest as possible. In this paper is presented developed utilize software "SI !"" as a tool for rationalization of constructional and working parameters calculation during development of new one or changing of parameters on e#isting pending conveyors. Key words: internal transport, pending conveyer, modelling, simulation %. I!TERDUCTIO! Modern development and technological improvements had a great impact on structure, management and philosophy of production systems regardless to industrial field which they belong. It is important to note that, by opening of local markets in last few decades, is made such ambient that existence of production systems in any moment is very questionable, in other words on global market only the best survives. This situation doesnt need to be consider as a threat, contrary this situation can be consider as a opportunity. amely, only production systems whose existence is based on innovation, efficiency and economical sustainability will be able to advance and enlarge its share on global market. Main goal of each production system is achievement of planned production !quantitative, qualitative and on time". #ll processes in production systems, except direct manufacturing, are costs making processes !transportation, quality control, warehousing, preventive maintenance, etc.", there is no creation of additional values to products. $owever, those cost making processes are necessary in production processes, and because of that it is important to find the methods to decrease%minimise share of those processes in whole production cycles. Modern production systems required that this decreasing%minimising of cost making processes share in production cycle need to be implement during whole production system life, from a moment of business idea creation until a moment of closing of business sub&ect. Implementation of this approach significantly increases concurrent abilities of business sub&ect and its belonging production processes. %.% Role of i&'er&al 'ra&(por' i& pro)uc'io& (*('e+( #ll production processes irrespective to theirs kind have one common point and that is transport, disregarding to type of transported goods !row materials, intermediate goods, finished products, etc.". 'ignificance of transportation for production systems is reflected thru its share in price of finished products. (epending to industrial area amount of transportation costs is between )* and +*, of total production costs -./. In following text, of this paper, transportation systems as a fundamental part of production systems in detail are considered. 'pecifically, internal transportation system 0 pending conveyer is installed in metal processing factory for transportation of finished parts between production lines and storage on ground floor. 1bserved transportation system has direct influence on -)/2 0 Timely transportation of semi0finished products to given or within technological departments with the aim to fulfil whole manufacturing process3 0 4ork productivity3 0 Manufacturing costs3 0 #mount of investment in building of production system3 0 5tilisation of working area in production and storage ob&ects, etc. More and more dynamical development of transportation systems and devices create important presumptions for implementation of modern solutions for material flow control within production systems. 6low of material in production systems in most cases presents integrative factor, and in the same time area with significant reserves and opportunities for production rationalisation !time of material flow, time of serving, time of delay, etc.". Modern approaches to building of production capacities in industry imply building of factories facilities on several floors too. In this way significant reducing of facility%es building costs is possible, through reducing of investment in base ground area and infrastructure. Management and running of technological processes of production, warehousing, packing, shipment of finished products to buyers, etc. often is not possible without appropriate transportation system in multi floors production facilities. Therefore all design processes, construction and dimensioning, of transportation systems need to be rationali7e, speed up,

and make them as simplest as possible. 8ossibilities of informational technologies implementation in above mentioned transportation systems design processes was inspiration for creation of utili7e software for working parameters of pending conveyor calculation. ,. SOFTWARE -SIVUR. (eveloped software 9'I:5;9 !'I:5; 0 'oftware for rationalisation of pending conveyors calculation", created in :isual <asic, is a tool for calculation and optimisation of construction and working parameters of pending conveyers with possibilities of conveyer=s contour variation. amed software has data bases for calculation coefficients, building element characteristics and has capability for graphics processing of gain results. #lgorithm for calculation on which is software 9'I:5;9 based is presented on figure ..

6ig. . #lgorithm of 9'I:5;9 software In the first phase is require2 to propound main input data !weight of transported material, speed%capacity", to generate >( contour of pending conveyor and to indicate construction points at conveyer !places for chain tighten, places for driving elements, places for loading and unloading".

6ig. ) ?ayout of pending conveyer ext step is optional and allows selection of calculation type, apropos methods for parameters calculation. 6ollowing combinations of calculation methods are available2 0 'peed !constant"0 weight !constant", 0 @apacity%speed !variable"0 weight !constant", 0 'peed !constant" 0 weight !variable". <y afore mentioned option of calculation type selection, 9'I:5;9 achieve additional flexibility and enables some kind of a working parameters area scanning with the aim to find weaknesses !insufficient capacity of actuating device, insufficient strain of chain, to large strain force in chain, material strength violation of pending conveyor constructional elements, etc." in constructional and working parameters. In following step user need to select boundary values, correctional coefficients and characteristics of driving devices !guiding chain". <y finishing of previous presented steps process of input parameters defining is finished and calculation phase begin. @alculation phase is fully automatic, and it finished by presentation of preliminary results through diagrams and textual files !intensity of contour forces A figure >, strain forces%weight, circular forces on sprocket wheel A figure B, minimal allowed distance between transported pieces, maximal load of hanging trolleys, load of hanging trolleys over hori7ontal, vertical and curvature sections, and derived values such as2 power of electric engine, load of hanging trolley bearings, etc.". In the case of unsatisfactory calculated results or if calculated results are not included in set up boundary values there is an option for correction of input data and recalculation. If the calculated results are satisfy and in set up boundary values then final textual file with results, finale diagrams and numerical presentations are created and available to users. In this phase user can return in initial phase A setting of input data too, with the aim to perform certain corrections over construction or working parameters of pending conveyor.

6ig. B (ependency of circular force on sprocket wheel 4hen verification process of general calculation is finished user has opportunity to generate report about accomplished process of pending conveyor designing. #dditional software 9'I:5;9 allow user to utili7e interface with another software through recording of wanted parameters in $.t#t form. /. APP ICATIO! OF -SIVUR.SOFTWARE I! I!DUSTR$ /.% C0arac'eri('ic( of +o)el (eveloped software 9'I:5;9 is implemented in analysis of loads of industrial pending conveyer, with construction parameters adopted from literature ->/. The software was used in innovation process for improvement of existing pending conveyer characteristics according to new working parameters2 0 @onveyer capacity2 CmaxD.B** pcs%h, vmaxD*,E m%s3 0 Transported weight2 mmaxD )E* kg3 0 Transportation loads distance2 tD.,)F m. @urrent working parameters of pending conveyer are2 0 @onveyer capacity2 CmaxD..)E pcs%h, vmaxD*,B m%s3 0 Transported weight2 mmax D >* kg3 0 Transportation loads distance2 tD.,)F m. (ue to fact that transportation systems are usually design with certain reserve in construction and working parameters it is necessary to verify are existing parameters satiable for new placed criteria. <y this way will be possible to avoid unnecessary investment in new transportation system A pending conveyor. 1nly appropriate ad&ustment of existing construction of pending conveyor will be sufficient. 1n figure E is present trace of pending conveyor installed in observed production facility. #dopted minimal tension force is E** , and it is presumed in point > of pending conveyer trace. (riving element is in point ., and dragging elements are in points B and E.

6ig. > (iagram of contour forces

6ig. E ;oute of observed pending conveyor 6or analysis of observed transportation system is used following variation of working parameters2 0 6or speed2 vD*,*E3 *,.E3 *,)E3 *,>E3 *,BE3 *,E m%s3 0 6or weight of transported material2 mD.*3 )E3 E*3 GE3 .**3 .)E3 .E*3 .GE3 )**3 )E* kg. <y this distribution of working parameters was tried to get access in all working conditions of transportation system, in other words it was tried to notice working conditions which are above boundary conditions. /., Re(ul'( of calcula'io& In the table . are presented aggregate results gain by implementation of software 9'I:5;9, and in figure H is presented diagram of contour forces which appear in
m !kg" v !m%s" 4! " 8 !k4" )E* *,*. *,>FG )E* *,)E )+*)H +,HF .>,EE .+,>E )E* *,>E )E* *,E

6ig. H (iagram of pending conveyor contour forces Thru analysis of gain data it is possible to conclude that with maximal transportation weight of )E* kg, forces which appear on chain dont override allowed limit for tension of chain, which is )+HE) . Taking in to account criteria of chain minimal tensile force, which is 6minDE** and by analysis of calculated data for contour force values it is possible to conclude that with transportation weight above .E* kg on contour . this condition is violate. ;eason for this occurrence can be explained by the fact that with unloading of transportation weight, chain is relieved till degree that tensile state becomes state of total unloads !with transportation weight )E* kg, tensile force in point . is 6.D0BEF,G ". 1n basis of presented case transportation weight is limited on .E* kg or it is necessary to increase tensile force in chain with the aim to avoid above mentioned phenomena. In the next step strength of construction elements material of pending conveyor is tested, taking in to account extreme values gain by calculation. <y this way degree of security for values above boundaries values is defined. (ue to changing of working parameters need for ad&ustment of driving elements to new conditions is appeared. #ccording to those new conditions diagrams of theoretical force, transported weight and transported capacity dependencies are created, table ) and figure G. Table ) 'ummary results of required theoretical power of electric motor 1. CO!C USIO! 4ith the aim to provide production of wide scope of products in production systems it is necessary to implement internal transportation systems with proper level of flexibility. 4ork of those systems must be completely planed in the order to avoid unnecessary flow of materials. 1ne of possibilities for fulfilling of above mentioned request can be achieved through creation of mathematical model.

observed working area of pending conveyor. It is important to emphasi7e the fact that by analysing of above mentioned results is possible to conclude where boundary of pending conveyor dragging elements is.
m !kg" .* E* .E* v !m%s" *,E *,E *,E 6dop ! " )+HE) 6max ! " BFBB,) FG*> .F>E. 6min ! " .GBF,H .>F*,G BH. 4! " >.EG,E GBH+ .F)BG 8 !k4" ),. B,+G .),.G ;emark2 6dop A allowed force in chain 6max A maximal force in chain 6min 0 minimal force in chain 4 A cylindrical force on drive sprocket wheel 8 A theoretical power of electro motor )E* *,E )G+++ 0BEF,G )+*)H .+,>E

Table . ;esults of calculation 0 summery

6ig. G

(iagram of required theoretical power of pending conveyor

<y implementation of created mathematical model for designing and defining of pending conveyor construction parameters optimisation of certain values is enabled. In addition, if there are demands, during exploitation, for changing of pending conveyor working parameters, by implementation of developed mathematical model, ad&ustment of construction and working parameters of analysing internal transportation system are possible for relatively short period of time. 2. REFERE!CES
-./ M. Ilarin2 Industri%ski in&en%erstvo 'n%iga II (

)rganizaci%a unutra*n%eg transporta i upravl%an%e kvalitetom3 5niver7itet u <eogradu, MaJinski fakultet, <eograd, .++E. -)/ ;. Kelo, (L. TufekMiN2 96leksibilni transport9, MaJinski fakultet u Tu7li, Tu7la, )**). ->/ '.<. ToJiN, +rora,un ma*ina neprekidnog transporta i di&ali,nih ura-a%a, 5niver7itet u <eogradu ,MaJinski fakultet, <eograd, .++B. -B/ (L. TufekMiN, M. OurkoviN2 .leksibilni proizvodni sistemi , MaJinski fakultet u Tu7li, Tu7la, .+++. Authors: ".(c. E)i& Cerjakovic, Prof. Dr. D3e+o Tufekcic, Prof. Dr. Ala& Topcic, Prof. Dr. Ra+i3 Selo, 5niversity of Tu7la, 6aculty of Mechanical Pngineering, 5niver7itetska B, GE*** Tu7la, <osnia and $er7egovina, 8hone2 Q>FG >E >)*0+)*, 6ax2 Q>FG >E >)*0+).. P0mail2 edin.cer&akovicRunt7.ba d7emo.tufekcicRunt7.ba alan.topcicRunt7.ba rami7.seloRunt7.ba