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Literature survey about elements of manufacturing shop floor operation key performance indicators
... manufacturing shop floor operations ...industries shop floor KPIs are discussed below: Rahman [12], calculated CT to figure out the key downtime causes during total productive maintenance ...
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Sociotechnical Evaluation of Alternative and Innovative Shop Floor Control Systems
... This paper analyses the adherence of three alternative and innovative shop floor control systems to sociotechnical principles. As may be noted, POLCA ‘scores’ relatively well with respect to sociotechnical ...
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The Development of a shop floor control software module for a new branding and packaging scheme
... a shop floor control (software) tool will be particularly important to the successful implementation of Diffinity Genomics’ product ...proposed shop floor control tool will enable Diffinity ...
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Shop Floor Control in Repair Shops: Which shop floor control method can be used for which repair shop?
... the shop floor, such as the size of the queues in front of the machines or ...the shop floor is below a predetermined WIP ...this shop floor based triggering mechanism has, in ...
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Development of a Simulation Based Intelligent Decision Support System for the Adaptive Real Time Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems
... The FMS shop floor data are gathered and stored into the appropriate databases over time. The adaptive control mechanism employs a real time discrete event simulator to predict performance of the given ...
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The Evolution of Trade Unions in Britain
... shop floor when they associate themselves with a labour institution (Booth, 1985; Bryson 2003). Moreover, if partners and work mates belong to a society, they are potentially capable of providing insight ...
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A multi objective genetic algorithm for optimisation of energy consumption and shop floor production performance
... Mouzon et al. (2007) indicated that in many manufacturing com- panies, the non-bottleneck machines are always left running idle. The authors collected the time and electricity consumption data of a four CNC machines ...
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Innovative work behavior through access to resources and LMX : case study at a German retailer
... a shop floor worker with knowledge in the field of warehouse logistics would contribute more than a recently hired shop floor worker, who still must learn a ...
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Enhancement of Process Capability for the Vision Guided Robot
... The automatic alignment is regarded as a substitute for image corrections. The Jacobian is adopted from Wata- nabe et al. [4]. The accuracy is tested first using a custom-designed pattern, consisting of 16 solid dots on ...
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Systematic Verification of Flexible Manufacturing Control Software
... Abstract—Increasing the performance and flexibility of automated manufacturing systems is a key success factor for today’s production companies. Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) have proven to be particularly ...
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Ergonomics Improvements in a Paint Manufacturing Company
... As training is a very important element of successful ergonomics, an ergonomics seminar was organized for the entire workforce with the collaboration of the company’s management. The purpose of the seminar was to ensure ...
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On the Beat of the Drum:Improving the Flow Shop Performance of the Drum Buffer Rope Scheduling Mechanism
... the shop floor – they are withheld in a backlog from where they are released in accordance with the output rate of the bottleneck (the ...the shop floor (the dispatching ...
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Optimization of Shop Floor Layout Based on Material Movement
... When there is a variation between demand and capacity from the planning systems, it is time for the Industrial Engineer to try to find actions needed for productivity enhancement. By understanding the factors ...
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POLC A:an assessment of POLCA’s authorization element
... Yet although a number of studies in the extant literature report on implementations of POLCA in practice (e.g. Vandaele et al., 2008; Krishnamurthy & Suri, 2009; Riezebos, 2010) and/or on assessments of POLCA’s ...
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Kuhn production system: supplying material to the shop floor in an efficient way
... Kuhn produces and assembles agricultural machinery at eight sites. Each site is a specialist within their product range and provides the customer with high quality machinery. To achieve this all sites continuously ...
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THE EFFECTS OF QUALITY FACTORS OF WEB BASED INFORMATION SYSTEM ON THE EMPLOYEE CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE
... plant floor automation programs in this level are developed based on middleware ...plant floor system may extract programmable logic controller data (through interactive PPI communication Level), Plant- ...
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Shop-floor bargaining and the struggle for job control in the British automobile and aerospace industries 1950-1982
... In the UK automobile and aerospace industries, the struggle over job control and rewards for labour expended in the production process was particularly intense in the period of steady economic growth, high and stable ...
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