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HYDRAULIC BEARING PULLER
Nor Hidayah Abu Bakar, Mohd Zairin Aiza Mohd Zaini, Muhamad
Firdaus Mohd Fuzi, Mohd Fahrul Hassan, Muhammad Dinie Al-Syafiq
Radzuan, Muhammad Hafeez Hussein

9.1 INTRODUCTION

A bearing puller tool is an essential repair aid when working on an engine or

machine that has pressure-set bearings in its mechanisms. Without the tool, repair of
bad bearings would be difficult and prone to a high risk of damage to the shaft or
casing block of gearbox and engine. It is designed as a tool to make the removal and
installation of bearings simple and efficient, bearing pullers often resemble a pair of
scissors. In some cases, the configuration of the puller will allow the extraction of
both gears and bearings, including those that are connected with a series of shafts
within the mechanism. Different sizes of bearing pullers make it possible to use the
device on everything from a pair of skates to complicated industrial machinery.
‘Hydraulic Bearing Puller' is one of the products that have been modified from
the original product in the market. Extensive studies have been conducted on service
centers to implement this product. Most workers remove the bearing from the shaft
(shaft) a way tap so that it can be removed. Apart from that they also use the 'bearing
puller' common but with high cost. From the original product, we have made
modifications to equipment for easy used by employees.

9.2 EXISTING PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and

performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other industries.
Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost. In the process of best
practice benchmarking, management identifies the best firms in their industry, or in
another industry where similar processes exist, and compares the results and processes
of those studied (the "targets") to one's own results and processes.
In this way, they learn how well the targets perform and, more importantly,
the business processes that explain why these firms are successful. Benchmarking is
used to measure performance using a specific indicator (cost per unit of measure,
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productivity per unit of measure, cycle time of x per unit of measure or defects per
unit of measure) resulting in a metric of performance that is then compared to others.
Table 9.1 shows the benchmarking of existing products.

Table 9.1: Benchmarking of Product Specification from Commercial Product

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9.3 NEW CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

9.3.1 Component decomposition and function analysis

A block diagram below shows the parts and subassemblies that make up the
product in the form of hierarchical structure of component forms functions. Advance
overall contribute to overall product function. All part has its own function that related
with each other. Figure 9.1 shows component decomposition analysis and Figure 9.2
shows the function analysis of the proposed dried chili seeds separator machine.

Figure 9.1: Component Decomposition

Figure 9.2: Function Analysis of Hydraulic Bearing Puller

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9.3.2 Concept Selection

Based on the concept evaluation from weighted rating method, there have
several concept we had select:

1. System transmitter
For transmitter system, we chose a hydraulic systems for our products because our
products use moderate amount of power to generate remove the shaft smooth
movement.

2. Material
We select steel as a main material for our product because steel is easy to available.

3. Types of switch
For the types of switch, we choose push button switch since it’s not complex and
suitable for the machine that we are produced.

4. Energy source
We choose the battery as an energy source for our project because the battery is
selected is a rechargeable battery and thus can reduce the cost of repairing.

5. Operation method
For the operation of this project, we chose to implement a semi-automatic method in
which, the user must put the shaft in the shaft clamp, then turn on the machine to
remove the bearing from the shaft.

9.3.3 Product Sketching

After done with the concept selection, all selected concepts are combined into
a complete structure. Figure 9.3 shows the preliminary sketch of the proposed concept.

Figure 9.3 Sketching of the proposed concept

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9.4 EMBODIMENT DESIGN

9.4.1 Product Architecture

Arrangement of functional elements of the product into physical units are
called chunks. A basic consideration is how much modularity or integration should be
provided to the design. In other word, stage for the selection and arrangement of
components on a product (Figure 9.4).

Figure 9.4: Schematic diagram of Hydraulic Bearing Puller

9.4.2 Product Configuration

The shape and general dimensions of components were established in
configuration design. Exact dimensions and tolerances are established in parametric
design. Component can be classified into special-purpose parts, standard parts, and
standard assemblies.

 Standard and special-purpose part

Standard part is the part where it’s been imported in the drawing processes by
using Solidwork software. The standard parts used in the fabrication of bearing puller
are as listed in Table 9.2. Special purpose parts in this bearing puller project product
are frame and stand as shown in Table 9.3. The frame are made from harden material
that make it less fatigue. Otherwise, the frame size is small and light weight. Stand of
this bearing puller have stable shape design. It can be adjustable and suitable in any
kind of bearing and shaft assemblies.
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Table 9.2: Standard Parts

Table 9.3: Special Purpose Parts

9.5 DETAIL DESIGN

9.5.1 Detail Drawing

A detail drawing is the most important drawing for fabrication work. A detail
drawing is a drawing of a part giving a complete and exact description of its form,
dimensions, and construction. Detail drawing must be concise, in that they convey
only the information needed to create the part, such as the size, type of material, finish,
tolerance and any special instruction. In other word, all information needed to produce
the part should be on the detail drawing. In our project, the detail drawing as follows.
There are 18 parts for this machine and every parts are shown in Figure 9.5 with the
details of the drawing.

Figure 9.5 Exploded view of dried chili seeds separator machine

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Assembly drawing is the combination of all parts. The 18 parts of drawing are
placed together, suits each other and become the machine. Assembly drawing for
Hydraulic bearing Puller illustrated in Figure 9.6.

Figure 9.6: Assembly drawing of dried chili seeds separator

9.5.2 Final Product Design Specification

The final product design specification is a document created during the
problem definition activity very early in the product realization process. It lays the
groundwork for all engineering design activities and ensures that all relevant factors
are accounted for and all stakeholders are heard from.

9.6 PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT

Most of the questions regarding form, fit and function can be tested at earlier
phases in the development cycle which is consist the conclusion of each design
process stage from problem formulation, conceptual design, configuration design and
parametric design to detail design before the final product rolls off the production line.
Because of that, a prototype of the product has been constructed at the beginning of
the product development process before the final product entering the manufacturing
phase. For example, the test of appearance of a product by showing customers a
reduced-size scale model made of clay or balsa wood.
The purpose of the prototype is to confirm that the design satisfies all customer
requirements and performance criteria. Prototype may be reduced scale, expanded
scale, or full scale representing the part. Prototypes may be made of materials similar
to or exactly like the intended product. Effective development team will use the right
type of prototype, to test critical aspects at right time, thereby saving the company
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more time and money. Several prototype have been constructed during the
development of our product which is our product is Hydraulic Bearing Puller.

9.6.1 Process Involved

The process is beginning with the drawing of each part of our product which is consist
the main body, switch box, hydraulic system, claim, motor and power window. The
drawing is done by using the features in Solidworks software such as extrude, cut,
fillet, chamfer, shell and so on. Figure 9.7 shows the example of one of the drawing
part.

Figure 9.7: Clamp holder hydraulic shaft

Assembly drawing is the combination of all parts. For our project, there have 18 parts
of drawing. All of the parts are placed together, suits each other to become the real
machine. After the drawing of all parts is finished, then it is assembled together and
finally gets the drawing as shown in Figure 9.8.

Figure 9.8: Assembly Drawing

Coloring process
This process is performed after the assembly parts are done by using Solidworks
software. The colours that suit to the drawing are same with the real product.
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For the simulation process, it consists of three types of analysis which is static
analysis, fatigue analysis and thermal analysis. From these several types of analysis,
we will know the load, stress, displacement and other kind of element that the machine
can support. Figure 9.9 shows the example of analysis that has been made.

Figure 9.9: Static Analysis

9.6.2 Proof of Concept Tests

Proof of Concept Tests is built to prove and validate that the product will
perform according to the conceptual design of our project. The prototype of the critical
part of the product has been built, as shown in Figure 9.10. The laboratory test is
performed to prove that the working product principle will perform in the final
product.

Figure 9.10: Proof of concept of hydraulic system, switch, motor, and power
window
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9.6.3 Final Prototype

Based on Figure 9.11, the figure shows that the final product prototype as a
finished product. The figure also shows all the assembly parts and after fabricates
process during the development of the product. The prototype has been developed
successful by follow all the design process step. So, the main objective of our product
is achieved to build a Hydraulic Bearing Puller.

Figure 9.11: Final prototype of the product

9.7 CONCLUSION

In the future, our group hopes that this product will have its innovation to make
some improvement to ensure the product will be more efficient and sustainable. We
also hope that one day it will have an intelligent programming which will be set into
the machine to eliminate human interface. Therefore, this machine will be called a
smart machine operation, which will totally ease the human works. So, we can
conclude that our project objectives are achieved. From our study and learn, this
project is the best way to know and feel how the engineers works.
To design a mechanical devices or product, we must be good and efficient in
designing of individual machine elements and able to integrate several components
then devices into a coordinated. The performance of the products components and
systems are basely depends on the materials that had been chosen. Therefore, we must
to understand about the materials behave and properties. Other than that, we also had
to identified and decide the detailed function and design requirements for the product
design.

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