Hasna Afifah 1106069595 Industrial Engineering Assignment A3

Figure 2 shows a wedding shop in Jakarta, and one of its products. A. What type of material is usually used for the product? The material that is usually used for the product is iron or steel. Besides the price which is not really expensive both of the material have a good quality of strength and doesnt require a difficult method to shape or bend. B. Welding is used to assemble the product. Explain what happen to the material structure during and after welding? What factor should be taken into consideration during welding? During the welding process : A conductive electrode is feed into te gap betwen the two materials that are going to be welded or joined. An intense heat to melt the two materials is created through a dead short that happens at the end of the elecrode that is placed in the two ends of a complete circuit that carries high amperage and voltage (the other ends of this circuit is the ground clamp that is placed onto one of the materials) After the welding process : After the welding process the two materials will be joined because the melt at the intense heat. There will be a heat affected zone in the material. Factors that should be taken into consideration during welding are : The rod, during the welding process the rod mustnt be pushed directly onto the work because it will cause a dead short and there will be no heat produces since no arc will form The flux, flux is a material that coated the arc welding rod. The flux should be taken into consideration because if the rods were not

coated in flux, the newly welded area would be damaged by the effects of oxidiztion and would be prone to failure or fast deterioration

C. Predict the microstructure of the product (outside the weld area)

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microstructure of a ductile iron. After the welding, the microstructure will change a little due to the increase in strength and a decrease in elongation.

D. As an Industrial Engineer, what thing that you need to improve in the welding shop to increase the productivity? The welder tools, to get a good welding result we should use welder tools which rod has a flux, so when were welding the material is protected from the effects of oxidization The safety of the welding area, each workers that do the welding need to wear mask and a glove also a heat-resistant clothes Use the 240V welder machine because this type of welder machine will produce a smoother weld and have a big power to weld thick steel materials Create a system to the workstation, such as the input booth where the orders and the raw material come, the work area which are divided based on the welding process stages, the quality control area, and the packaging area.