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Identifying Constraints in Available Production Capacity

Egerström, Kristin LU and Landin, Louise LU (2020) MIOM05 20201
Production Management
Abstract
Accurate production scheduling is an essential element to obtain high performing manufacturing facilities. By optimally allocating the available resources in a factory, improved equipment utilization, and hence production efficiency, can be reached. It is important that the planning considers factors that potentially restrict the available capacity, to access an uninterrupted process flow in the manufacturing workshop. This paper summarizes the master thesis project performed at Sandvik during spring 2020, with the purpose to identify all limiting factors in terms of available equipment, in a processing facility for cast iron details. The analysis showed that three parameters are potential constraints for the available production capacity.... (More)
Accurate production scheduling is an essential element to obtain high performing manufacturing facilities. By optimally allocating the available resources in a factory, improved equipment utilization, and hence production efficiency, can be reached. It is important that the planning considers factors that potentially restrict the available capacity, to access an uninterrupted process flow in the manufacturing workshop. This paper summarizes the master thesis project performed at Sandvik during spring 2020, with the purpose to identify all limiting factors in terms of available equipment, in a processing facility for cast iron details. The analysis showed that three parameters are potential constraints for the available production capacity. However, if the scheduling is done according to these factors, it will be possible to avoid overlaps while maintaining enough capacity to produce forecasted orders. This result thus establishes that there is no need to perform further investment analysis to increase the capacity of any constraint. (Less)
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author
Egerström, Kristin LU and Landin, Louise LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
An analysis from a production scheduling perspective of a processing facility at Sandvik
course
MIOM05 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Production planning · Production equipment limitations · Constraint management · Theory of Constraints · Single Minute Exchange of Die · Overall Equipment Effectiveness · Toolset capacity
report number
20/5649
language
English
id
9022921
date added to LUP
2020-06-29 11:47:52
date last changed
2021-06-14 16:24:24
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  abstract     = {{Accurate production scheduling is an essential element to obtain high performing manufacturing facilities. By optimally allocating the available resources in a factory, improved equipment utilization, and hence production efficiency, can be reached. It is important that the planning considers factors that potentially restrict the available capacity, to access an uninterrupted process flow in the manufacturing workshop. This paper summarizes the master thesis project performed at Sandvik during spring 2020, with the purpose to identify all limiting factors in terms of available equipment, in a processing facility for cast iron details. The analysis showed that three parameters are potential constraints for the available production capacity. However, if the scheduling is done according to these factors, it will be possible to avoid overlaps while maintaining enough capacity to produce forecasted orders. This result thus establishes that there is no need to perform further investment analysis to increase the capacity of any constraint.}},
  author       = {{Egerström, Kristin and Landin, Louise}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Identifying Constraints in Available Production Capacity}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}