Stochastic dispersive transport: An excursion from statistical physics to automated production line design

Several designs of a manufacturing line for the production of extruded foods were developed and compared with the current production line design. The manufacturing line consisted of six unit operations: batching, grinding, extruding, drying, further processing, and packing. The authors performed the comparisons by simulating the current design and the proposed alternatives. The alternatives consisted of modifications to the extruder-dryer and/or packing line designs. The simulation results indicated that all the alternate designs roughly doubled system throughput compared to current designs but did not differ significantly in performance among themselves. The doubled output is worth about $2.5 million per year. This is easily enough to justify the cost of new equipment. One design would cost less to implement than the others and thus was the preferred option.

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Portable Safety System using Radar for Flexible Human-Robot-Collaboration in a Real Semi-automated Production Line

10.5220/0010645800003061 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Christian Bergner ◽

Ferhat Akan ◽

Ronald Schmidt-Vollus ◽

Peter Heß ◽

Christian Deuerlein

Keyword(s):

Production Line ◽

Safety System ◽

Automated Production ◽

Human Robot Collaboration

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DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF A FEEDER PART OF THE AUTOMATED PRODUCTION LINE

Electromechanical and energy saving systems ◽

10.30929/2072-2052.2020.2.50.53-60 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (50) ◽

pp. 53-60

Author(s):

B. Fecko ◽

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T. Vince ◽

L. Darák ◽

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Keyword(s):

Production Line ◽

Automated Production

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Aggregate capacity planning and production line design/redesign in agile manufacturing

Agile Manufacturing: The 21st Century Competitive Strategy ◽

10.1016/b978-008043567-1/50028-0 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 535-558

Author(s):

Z.-S. Hua ◽

P. Banerjee

Keyword(s):

Production Line ◽

Capacity Planning ◽

Agile Manufacturing ◽

Line Design

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Innovative Strategic Planning for the Design of a High Volume Production Line using Quality Function Deployment and a Batch

International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management ◽

10.4018/jcrmm.2013010105 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 53-68

Author(s):

Roberto Yumbla ◽

Stuart Lumley ◽

M. Khurshid Khan

Keyword(s):

Production Line ◽

Quality Function Deployment ◽

High Volume ◽

Quality Function ◽

Manufacturing Line ◽

Proactive Management ◽

High Volume Production ◽

Volume Production ◽

Planning Methodology ◽

Line Design

This paper proposes an innovative factory planning methodology to achieve the objectives that were defined by Flexitallic for the future expansion of the Thermiculite production line. The concepts under investigation extend to the analysis of flow benefits and restrictions considering product features and demands addressed in a proposed Batch/Flow Comparative Matrix. Furthermore, this paper introduces the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) concept to support the manufacturing line design using a mechanism of incorporating commercial awareness in all stages of the product deployment. The original QFD ensures process planning by bringing parts deployment into parts characteristics through the House of Quality. This study renews the original QFD by developing the Strategic Alignment of Quality Function Deployment (SAQFD) to achieve proactive management of Houses III and House IV. The case study demonstrates the utilization and applicability of the proposed methodologies, and demonstrates their importance during the design of a high volume production line.

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