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unnecessary space where some students’ handwriting are varied from each other and uniformity
cannot be achieved.
Our development for the Easy Metal Stamper must be aligned with the following objectives
in order to counter the problems faced. First, the objective of the project is easy handling, to mark
with more than one (1) puncher at a time. Second objective of the project is proper finishing, making
proper finishing on the metal plates with readable and uniform imprint with minimum imprint’s depth
of 0.02cm. Last objective is user friendly, to produce a machine that is suitable for the use of students
and able to ensure the safety of the users by installing hardware that can increase the safety features of
the prototype.
To enable work on the project to run smoothly and will not deviate from the original purpose
of the project, we had set up a number of scopes to be met. The scopes or limitations of this project
are as follows; i) the project aimed to be used on flat metal plates with thickness of 2mm – 6mm
within the size of 100mm × 100mm. ii) the project must be able to imprint carbon steel type metal
plates according to the specified dimension. iii) the project will be included with electronic equipment
such as microcontroller that is able to control the speed of DC motor, a buzzer, proximity sensors for
metal detection and switch box that will enhance the safety feature of the prototype.

Purpose of the Project
The results of this project are expected to provide convenience to students in carrying out the
stamping work on the practical welding task. Marking the workpiece will be faster by students
compared to previous procedure where the work is done by single imprint at a time. Furthermore,
stamping work using this metal stamper make the plates readable and uniform imprint which allows
lecturers to identify and give marks to each student who carry out the practical task.

Methodology
Methodology of this project is divided into six elements shown in the figure 1 below. All these
elements can be tied to each other to get the spot of the Easy Metal Stamper that can guarantee quality
and aim at objectives.
The problem arises during the marking of the welding plates by the students once they are
done with their task. The current method that is being used to mark their metal plate is by using paint
marker or some may use a hammer with punchers. By using such methods, we have found out that
there were safety concern arises where students often hurt themselves from accidently t ouching the
hot surface of the metal plates.
Aside than that, the usage of paint marker is not efficient because most paint marker’s tip
ended up ruined because most student will not wait for their metal plate to cool completely and will
simply write down their name and ruined the tip of the marker
After the problem is recognize, we do the literature review or background research how to
marking the metal easier and what product is already existed in industry market. However in the
market, the stamping product is too expensive and not practical to use by students in the workshop of
Polytechnic Mukah.