An Innovative Design and Fabrication of Indian Flatbread Making Machine

Abstract

About 60 million Metric Tons (MMT) of wheat is processed to obtain Atta annually in India. It is consumed mainly in the form of Indian flatbread. Dough is prepared by mixing wheat flour with water, followed by sheeting the dough to form circular shape with small thickness. The flat circular sheet of dough is subjected to thermal treatment to get delicious and diet food as Indian Flatbread which is consumed by majority Indian peoples daily. Nowadays, flatbread making process is dying in Indian families because of busy life style and increased disposable income to fulfill the need of city life culture. It is evident that the Atta processing industry is showing the growth of more than 30% annually. But, there is an ever ending demand for ready-to-eat as well as easy-to-carry food as Indian flatbread which leads to the way for mechanizing flatbread making process with the aid of machineries. Hence, it is decided to make a detailed plan to fabricate low-cost Indian flatbread making machine that can yield high quality and traditional Indian flatbread. The machine designed consists of AC motor unit, plastic roller with handle which rotates smoothly by bearing and other maker parts. Design of Indian flatbread making machine was done by CATIA V5 R18 3D Modeling software. Fabrications of all the parts have been done with the assist of suitable machines. In this project work all the challenging parts are fabricated as per an innovative design followed by rigid fabrication as per need and the parts were assembled to perform indented function as flatbread sheet making process.