Agile Product Development in Submersible Pump through CAD Modelling (CFD)

Agile manufacturing (AM) is a 21 century concept in manufacturing firm intended to improve the competitiveness of firms. Manufacturing process based on AM is characterized by customer-supplier integrated process for product design, manufacturing, marketing and support services. This needs decision-making at functional knowledge levels, stable unit cost, flexible manufacturing, easy access to integrated data and modular production facilities. Agile manufacturing is yet to be adopted in certain manufacturing sectors. In this, pump manufacturing sector is one among them by evolving new models quickly in accordance with the dynamic demands of the customers. In order to overcome this deficiency, this project is to implement AM principle in designing of pump. In this project work submersible pump model is chosen. The main objective is to reduce the lead time, to reduce the weight and cost of the pump. To overcome this problem, in this project suitable plastics material is selected for the impeller. And the model is created using CAD modeling. And the impeller is redesigned to reduce the lead time. By inputting the parameters in Pro/E software package, the designed model is subjected to analysis using ANSYS software package and the flow analysis is done by COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD).