scholarly journals Optimal Design of Production Rate in A Failure-Prone Manufacturing System

Author(s):  
Bibhas C. GIRI ◽  
Tadashi DOHI
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alkahtani ◽  
Muhammad Omair ◽  
Qazi Salman Khalid ◽  
Ghulam Hussain ◽  
Imran Ahmad ◽  
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The management of a controllable production in the manufacturing system is essential to achieve viable advantages, particularly during emergency conditions. Disasters, either man-made or natural, affect production and supply chains negatively with perilous effects. On the other hand, flexibility and resilience to manage the perpetuated risks in a manufacturing system are vital for achieving a controllable production rate. Still, these performances are strongly dependent on the multi-criteria decision making in the working environment with the policies launched during the crisis. Undoubtedly, health stability in a society generates ripple effects in the supply chain due to high demand fluctuation, likewise due to the Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Incorporation of dependent demand factors to manage the risk from uncertainty during this pandemic has been a challenge to achieve a viable profit for the supply chain partners. A non-linear supply chain management model is developed with a controllable production rate to provide an economic benefit to the manufacturing firm in terms of the optimized total cost of production and to deal with the different situations under variable demand. The costs in the model are set as fuzzy to cope up with the uncertain conditions created by lasting pandemic. A numerical experiment is performed by utilizing the data set of the multi-stage manufacturing firm. The optimal results provide support for the industrial managers based on the proactive plan by the optimal utilization of the resources and controllable production rate to cope with the emergencies in a pandemic.


2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofiene Dellagi ◽  
Wajdi Trabelsi ◽  
Zied Hajej ◽  
Nidhal Rezg

This study develops an analytical model in order to determine an optimal integrated maintenance plan and spare parts management. We consider a manufacturing system, producing only one type of product, over a finite planning horizon H equal to the sum of all production periods and the production quantity of each period is known. This system is subject to a continuously increasing degradation rate. That is why a preventive maintenance strategy is adopted in order to face the increasing failure rate. We noted that contrarily to the majority of studies in literature, we take into account the impact of the production rate variation on the manufacturing system degradation and consequently on the adopted optimal maintenance strategy. In addition, the real need of spare parts relative to the scheduled maintenance actions is taken into account. In fact, the purpose of our study consists at determining the optimal preventive maintenance frequency and the optimal quantity of spare parts to order by minimizing a total cost, including maintenance and spare parts management. Numerical examples are presented along with a sensitivity study in order to prove the use of the developed model for deriving the optimal integrated strategy for any instance of the problem.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iqra Asghar ◽  
Jong Soo Kim

With the ever-growing technology development, high-tech products such as mobile phones, computers, electromagnetic devices and smart devices are facing high design and production modification requirements with relatively shorter life cycles. For instance, every forthcoming smart phone goes out of production in a shorter period after its launch, followed by its next generation. The design of high-tech products requires high investments in smart and automated manufacturing technology to ensure higher production efficiency. For high-tech products with short life spans, the manufacturing performance-quality variable is an important design parameter that affects system reliability, production efficiency and manufacturing costs. Major performance-quality factors of a manufacturing system which affect productivity and reliability of the manufacturing process are discussed in this research. The study investigates an integrated smart production maintenance model under stochastic manufacturing reliability for technology dependent demand and variable production rate. The smart unit production cost is a function of manufacturing reliability and controllable production rate, as a manufacturing system can be operated at different production rates within designed limits μ ϵ [ μ m i n , μ m a x ] . Manufacturing reliability is increased through investment in smart manufacturing technology and resources. The integrated smart production maintenance model is formulated under general failure and repair time distributions and the optimal production maintenance policy is investigated under specific failure and repair time distributions. A mathematical model is developed to optimize the manufacturing quality-performance parameter, variable production rate, per unit technology investment and production lot size. The total cost function is optimized through the Khun–Tucker method. The mathematical model is also validated with numerical analysis, comparative study, and sensitivity analysis for model key parameters.


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