Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena

The main purpose of the paper is to identify the controllability of an existing production system; yogurt production line in Abu Ghraib Dairy Factory which has several machines of food processing and packing that has been studied. Through the starting of analysis, instability in production has been...

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Autores principales: Kawthar A. Mohammed Hasan, Ali H. Kadhum, Ameer H. Morad
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ba89a7c210394e9eacc6009a855ebdb82021-12-02T07:50:47ZEvaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena10.22153/kej.2019.10.0031818-11712312-0789https://doaj.org/article/ba89a7c210394e9eacc6009a855ebdb82019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://alkej.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/alkej/article/view/642https://doaj.org/toc/1818-1171https://doaj.org/toc/2312-0789 The main purpose of the paper is to identify the controllability of an existing production system; yogurt production line in Abu Ghraib Dairy Factory which has several machines of food processing and packing that has been studied. Through the starting of analysis, instability in production has been found in the factory. The analysis is built depending on experimental observation and data collection for different processing time of the machines, and statistical analysis has been conducted to model the production system. Arena Software is applied for simulating and analyzing the current state of the production system, and results are expanded to improve the system production and efficiency. Research method is applied to contribute in knowing and expecting the future running of the system to enhance the controllability of the system production and improve the production system and machine efficiency. Moreover, built an experiment-real model in Arena in order to control the system in term of production and process. First step is to collect the statistical data required for analysis in terms of input and output data for analysis. Second, is to track the production problem in term of process bottleneck in order to improve the utilization of the system. Third is to validate the model in order to overcome the product demand of the system uncontrollability. Through the result analysis of waiting time and production rate, it is clearly shown that system is stable with a need to resetting the capacity as a chance for the improvement, regarding to resources utilization. Re-planning resources capacity positively enhances the production and profitability of the system. Kawthar A. Mohammed HasanAli H. KadhumAmeer H. MoradAl-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of BaghdadarticleChemical engineeringTP155-156Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ENAl-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal, Vol 15, Iss 4 (2019)
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topic Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
spellingShingle Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Kawthar A. Mohammed Hasan
Ali H. Kadhum
Ameer H. Morad
Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
description The main purpose of the paper is to identify the controllability of an existing production system; yogurt production line in Abu Ghraib Dairy Factory which has several machines of food processing and packing that has been studied. Through the starting of analysis, instability in production has been found in the factory. The analysis is built depending on experimental observation and data collection for different processing time of the machines, and statistical analysis has been conducted to model the production system. Arena Software is applied for simulating and analyzing the current state of the production system, and results are expanded to improve the system production and efficiency. Research method is applied to contribute in knowing and expecting the future running of the system to enhance the controllability of the system production and improve the production system and machine efficiency. Moreover, built an experiment-real model in Arena in order to control the system in term of production and process. First step is to collect the statistical data required for analysis in terms of input and output data for analysis. Second, is to track the production problem in term of process bottleneck in order to improve the utilization of the system. Third is to validate the model in order to overcome the product demand of the system uncontrollability. Through the result analysis of waiting time and production rate, it is clearly shown that system is stable with a need to resetting the capacity as a chance for the improvement, regarding to resources utilization. Re-planning resources capacity positively enhances the production and profitability of the system.
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author Kawthar A. Mohammed Hasan
Ali H. Kadhum
Ameer H. Morad
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Ameer H. Morad
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title Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
title_short Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
title_full Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
title_fullStr Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation and Improvement of Manufacturing System Using Computer Software Arena
title_sort evaluation and improvement of manufacturing system using computer software arena
publisher Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad
publishDate 2019
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