National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The objective of current research work was to carry out field evaluation of sorghum harvester and also conduct the Pareto analysis of sorghum harvester to find out mechanical failure of various parts. The high workload, improper material selection of moving parts, improper clearance, maintenance and repair cause failure of component and many times equipment reliability issues were ignored. All the working components of machine required different level of maintenance throughout the life of machine. In order to minimize operating and maintenance cost, equipment required to be operated at maximum maintenance interval. In order to find out those components of machine which cause failure and contribute most of machine maintenance simple statistical method known as Pareto analysis was used. The sorghum harvester was tested in different field for different varieties of sorghum. During the field performance 46.7 percent and 20 per cent failure/ fault occurred in eccentric drive shaft of nipping unit and cutting unit respectively. Similarly 22.7 percent and 6.6 percent failure/faults occurred in cutter bar of nipping unit and cutting unit respectively.
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