Open AccessThe optimal design of electric cable conductor and insulator resistance using Taguchi multi-responses method
Author(s) -
Ali Parkhan,
H A Kwintanada,
Imam Djati Widodo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/673/1/012090
Subject(s) - taguchi methods , conductor , materials science , insulator (electricity) , electrical conductor , composite material , electrical resistance and conductance , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , automotive engineering , engineering
The quality of the electrical cable can be determined by resistance of insulator and conductor. There are some factors influencing the resistance of insulators and conductor. In this research, design of experiment, based on Taguchi method, is used to improve cable resistance. Because of having two responses, the optimization process uses the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method. The result showed that the combination of levels of these factors could produce average insulator resistance of 95.70 Ω (increasing by 8.90 Ω), and the average resistance of the conductor 11.908 Ω (decreases down by 0.057 Ω). This optimal condition was obtained by combining the levels of factor A1 B1 C1 D2 E2 F1 G1, i.e. the system works at 140 rpm cabling speed, non core extruder speed 2.9 m/s, core extruder speed 2.9 m/s, cooling water temperature 20 °C, copper elongation 150 - 250, temperature for melting PVC 160 °C-165 °C and PVC density 154, 95-155 kg/m3. Sensitivity analysis indicated that weighting of product quality attributes were not sensitive to optimal factor level combinations.