CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Product Background

Basically, the use of the food container nowadays are very common in human daily life. The
usage of the food container had become a demand and getting more popular among the industry
of fabrication container, the material that being use widely today such as polystyrene, plastic
and etc. are not environment friendly and very harmful the growth of the earth. The use of food
container available today can lead to the environment pollution in the future because of the
material used are hard to decay in short time.
In that case, our group had been assigned to do a press molding mold of food container that
will be used to fabricate the food container that will be use material that more nature friendly.
The material can be in form of the areca palm leaf that can be shape easily went it is being
heated while being compress into specific shape. The mold that need to be produce need to be
produce by using the CNC milling machine.

Figure 1: Dried Areca Palm Leaf.

CNC Computer Numerical Control machines as shown in Figure 1.1 are widely used in
manufacturing industry. CNC Machining is a process used in the manufacturing sector that
involves the use of computers to control machine tools. Tools that can be controlled in this
manner include lathes, mills, routers and grinders. The CNC in CNC Machining stands for
 Computer Numerical Control. A CNC system consists of three basic components which are
Part Program, Machine Control Unit (MCU) and Machine Tool.

Figure 2: Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machine

1.2 Objective

The objective of this project are:

1. To study the use of CNC machine in mold fabricate process.
2. To design and fabricate the mold of the food container.
3. To fabricate natural material container using molding process.

1.3 Scope

In order to achieve the objective, the scope of the study for this project is:
1. Using different kind of reference such as book and journal. Also had using the
knowledge that had been teach in the advance machining process class.
2. Using the software such as solidworks and CAD CAM to design the mold of the food
container and also using the CAD CAM to make a simulation of the CNC milling
machine process.
3. Natural material such as areca palm leaf will be used as the main material of the food
container.
1.4 Project Significance

This project is very important in the field of the industry of fabrication container in present
days. The usage of the current material of the food container are not environment friendly,
there are hard to be decompose in the short period of time. This can be lead to the environment
pollution. With the use of the natural material, the environment pollution can be reduce.
Besides that, with this project we are able to learn the practical ways of the CNC milling
machine work. A good knowledge of process flow of the CNC milling machine need to be
understand in order to fabricate the mold of the food container that need to be produce.

1.5 Team Formation

Group 1 in Advance Machining Process consists of 5 group members. The position of the
organization chart includes Manager, Vice Manager, Analysis Designer, Project Engineer and
Design Engineer. Figure 1.5 shows the organization chart.

AHMAD KASYFIL WAFI

BIN AHMAD NAJIB
AD150103
PROJECT MANAGER

CHAN YIEN YIEN

AD150255
VICE PROJECT
MANAGER

FIKRY HAKIMI BIN AHMAD MUZNI BIN MUHAMMAD FITRI BIN

MANSOR SHAH SHAFIE HARUN
AD150108 Cd150113 AD150153
DESIGN ENGINEER PROJECT ENGINEER ANALYSIS ENGINEER

Figure 3: Organization Chart

1.6 Project Planning