Evaluating Design Alternatives of an Extruded Food Production Line Using Simulation

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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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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Sources and Ways of Controlling Manufacturing Industrial Waste in the Northern Ghana

International Journal of Engineering and Management Research ◽

10.31033/ijemr.11.1.32 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 231-235

Author(s):

Atsu, A. M ◽

Thwala, W. D. ◽

Aigbavboa, C. O.

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Production Line ◽

Industrial Waste ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Manufacturing Industries ◽

Northern Ghana ◽

Production Lines ◽

Manufacturing Line ◽

Interview Session ◽

The Cost

Manufacturing waste forms part of industrial waste which is also rooted in solid waste. In Ghana, the ruling government has a flagship project known as one district one factory (1d1f). Most of these factories that are established and yet to be established are manufacturing industries. No doubt that these industries will generate lots of waste which must be managed properly. Also, the more factories are built, the more waste will be created. The main purpose of this paper is to identify and try to control the exact sources of waste generation on the production line of manufacturing industries. The method used was literature review, and interview of industry players. From the literature review, it was found that several sources of waste have been established such as municipal sources of waste, medical/clinical sources, agriculture sources, end-of-life-of automobile, industrial sources of waste, construction/demolition sources, and electronic sources of waste (eschooltoday, 2020, amauomo and baird, 2016) whiles the results from the interview session revealed that the exact point on the manufacturing line of the industry, which can be termed as sources of waste are; at the beginning, and sometimes the end of the production line. Observation on the production line also confirmed the perception of the factory hands, that at the beginning, and the end. Once the sources are identified, it is possible to control it. In conclusion, it was revealed that factory hands do not make critical observation on the production line. They agreed that if the sources are identified and controlled, it will reduce the cost of production which will increase their profit margin. It is therefore recommended that manufacturing industries should take much interest in identifying the sources of waste creation on their production lines. Also, they should take measurement seriously when feeding raw materials into the production line.

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Optimal Production LineLayout Model Based on Integer Programming

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.690-693.2896 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 690-693 ◽

pp. 2896-2900

Author(s):

Yong Zhao ◽

Xiao Yong Pan ◽

Chun Chuan Li ◽

Guo Hong Yao ◽

Jiang Wu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Integer Programming ◽

Production Line ◽

Ant Colony Algorithm ◽

Programming Model ◽

Theory Analysis ◽

Layout Problem ◽

Optimal Production ◽

Multi Stage ◽

The Cost ◽

Line Design

To control the cost and optimize the resource utilization of enterprises, production layout problem draws recently more and more attention by industries; however, a study on this problem indicates there is a lack of research on production line design, which is a major issue in the layout problem. Traditional methodology mainly depends on the designer’s experience and calls for theory analysis and quantitative study. This paper concerns the development of a multi-stage integer programming model to describe the production line layout problem, and employs a heuristic and ant-colony algorithm to solve the problem. A practical example illustrates the effectiveness of the model.

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Modeling and Case Study of the Production Line Layout System

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.416-417.1373 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 416-417 ◽

pp. 1373-1380

Author(s):

Yong Zhao ◽

Xiao Yong Pan ◽

Chun Chuan Li

Keyword(s):

Integer Programming ◽

Resource Utilization ◽

Production Line ◽

Programming Model ◽

Theory Analysis ◽

Layout Problem ◽

Multi Stage ◽

The Cost ◽

Line Design

A study on production line layout problem indicates there is a lack of research on the production line design issue. Traditional methodology on this problem mainly depends on the designers experience and calls for theory analysis and quantitative study. To control the cost and optimize the resource utilization of enterprises, this paper develops a multi-stage integer programming model to describe the production line layout problem, and proposes a heuristic algorithm to solve the problem. A practical example illustrates the effectiveness of the model.

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In FAB 300mm Wafer Level Atomic Force Probe Characterization

ISTFA 2012: Conference Proceedings from the 38th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2012p0071 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Terence Kane

Keyword(s):

Electrical Characterization ◽

Dark Field ◽

Wafer Level ◽

Electrical Measurements ◽

Manufacturing Line ◽

Atomic Force ◽

Monitoring Tools ◽

Voltage Contrast ◽

The Cost ◽

Non Destructive

Abstract A 300mm wafer atomic force prober (AFP) has been installed into IBM’s manufacturing line to enable rapid, nondestructive electrical identification of defects. Prior to this tool many of these defects could not detected until weeks or months later. Moving failure analysis to the FAB provides a means of complementing existing FAB inspection and defect review tools as well as providing independent, non-destructive electrical measurements at an early point in the manufacturing cycle [1] Once the wafer sites are non destructively AFP characterized, the wafer is returned to its front opening unified pod (FOUP) carrier and may be reintroduced into the manufacturing line without disruption for further inspection or processing. Whole wafer atomic force probe electrical characterization has been applied to 32nm, 28nm, 20nm and 14nm node technologies. In this paper we explore the cost benefits of performing non-destructive AFP measurements on whole wafers. We have found the methodology of employing a whole wafer AFP tool complements existing in-line manufacturing monitoring tools such as brightfield/dark field optical inspection, SEM in-line inspection and in-line E-beam voltage contrast inspection (EBI).

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Keynote

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review ◽

10.1145/3466826.3466829 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 3-3

Author(s):

Ingo Weber

Keyword(s):

Cost Estimation ◽

Estimation Method ◽

Main Topic ◽

System Throughput ◽

Distributed Ledger ◽

Smart Contract ◽

Distributed Ledger Technology ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Cost ◽

Application Developers

Blockchain is a novel distributed ledger technology. Through its features and smart contract capabilities, a wide range of application areas opened up for blockchain-based innovation [5]. In order to analyse how concrete blockchain systems as well as blockchain applications are used, data must be extracted from these systems. Due to various complexities inherent in blockchain, the question how to interpret such data is non-trivial. Such interpretation should often be shared among parties, e.g., if they collaborate via a blockchain. To this end, we devised an approach codify the interpretation of blockchain data, to extract data from blockchains accordingly, and to output it in suitable formats [1, 2]. This work will be the main topic of the keynote. In addition, application developers and users of blockchain applications may want to estimate the cost of using or operating a blockchain application. In the keynote, I will also discuss our cost estimation method [3, 4]. This method was designed for the Ethereum blockchain platform, where cost also relates to transaction complexity, and therefore also to system throughput.

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