Perancangan dan Pembuatan Mekanisme Pemutar Bambu dengan Kontrol Otomatis pada Mesin Pembilah Kayu

Abstract

In nural society life in Indonesia, bamboo holds an important role. Bamboo is known by the society to have good properties, such as : strong culms, straight, even, hard, easy-to-split, easy-to-shape and also easy-to-transport. Other than that, bamboo is also relatively cheap compared to the other structural material because bamboo is easy to the found around rural environment. Bamboo has become a multifunction plant for society. Such condition encourage the writer to create an adjustable system that is used to rotate bamboo automatically on a bamboo splitter machine. It has a simple form and easy to operate which makes is very suitable for low scale industry. This machine use an automated system where the electrical components is assembled to drive a DC motor which is connected to a mechanical device on the chuck to rotate the bamboo. The result shows that the average time of bamboo processing for each section of bamboo splitting is 0,8 s where for every processing of one bamboo is 12 minutes with average number of splitted-bamboo is 7, 8, and 10 splittedbamboo. For an hour operation of the machine, operator is able to procces 5 bamboos, which is 35 – 50 splitted-bamboo in total with the size of 30 mm.