Assembly and fabrication of small machines

Assembly & Fabrication of Mechanical Seed Cleaners

1. Description: Mechanical seed cleaners are used for seed clearing and grading in small scale operation. Seed cleaning and grading enhance the quality of the seeds and thereby the value of the seeds. In rural areas farmers will get more for their grains if they use these mechanical cleaners for cleaning and grading their marketable surplus.

2. Rationale: The Amhara Region is more than 90 percent agricultural; But farming is traditional where there is very little modernization in harvest and post-0harvest operations. Cleaning and grading of seeds especially using mechanical devices is almost unheard of Due to lack of cleaning operation, the quality of farm produces are considered as inferior because of the presence of foreign matters like dirt, dust, sand, etc with the grain. This problem can be rectified if mechanical seed cleaners are introduced and popularized in the Region. This project idea is one attempt for promoting the establishment of a plant that produces seed cleaning machines in the Region.

Assembly of Small Diesel Engines

1. Product Description: As power generating units, diesel engines have multiple purposes. Motor vehicles, agricultural machinery, irrigation pumps, electric power generators, etc, use diesel engines to receive power for doing certain functions.

2. Rationale: All types of diesel generators are imported into the country, and this import will increase as the economy expands requiring more power. Diesel engines come in different sizes, and each engine is composed of many parts and components. Due to economies of scale, many diesel engine parts are manufactured by specialized manufacturing units and they are supplied to manufacturing-cum-assembling units. Considering the importance of diesel engines, there is a strong need at the national and regional level to start; at least, assembling the engines from imported parts and components. Through assembling, we can learn manufacturing and fabrication of parts. This is how the development of basic industries in any country takes place --- assemble-fabricate-manufacture.

Small Scale Steel Plant

1. Product Description: Steel is a product basically made form iron and a small amount of carbon. There are different types of steel depending on their carbon content. Low carbon steel contains less than 0.25% carbon. Medium steel contains between 0.25 and 0.70% carbon. The amount of carbon in steel determines the physical characteristics of the steel. When steel is produced by adding some amount of other metals, this is called alloy steel. Steel is the foundation of an industrial economy. All heavy machinery and equipment are made from steel. Railways, ships, trains, motor vehicles, heavy duty trucks, earth moving machines, tanks, guns, artillery, bridges, dams, high rising buildings, production machines and many other products small and large are basically made from steel.

2. Market Potential: Steel is used for making different products. At an early stage of development steel is used based products. In the context of the Amhara region, production of steel will be used to produce small hand tools such as farm implements, construction tools and also to produce some components of small machines that could be assembled and fabricated in the region. Metal sheets made from steel can be used to fabricate and assemble grinding mills, hollow blocks making machines, wind mills, oil mills and other similar products. In short to build an industrial economy where machines produce other machines, where machines produce metal based products, the production of steel is a basic requirement. If the Amhara region is to have a strong industrial economy in the future, a start has to be made now. And that start is to build a small scale steel making plant.

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