Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility
This paper investigates current productivity levels of baked beans in a fast manufacturing consumer goods (FMCG) company. The market demand for baked beans on average has increased by 14% year on year over the past two to three years. This growth was unexpected and was unplanned for, hence equipment...
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| description | This paper investigates current productivity levels of baked beans in a fast manufacturing consumer goods (FMCG) company. The market demand for baked beans on average has increased by 14% year on year over the past two to three years. This growth was unexpected and was unplanned for, hence equipment was utilized to maximum capacity, at times ignoring maintenance issues. The outcome of this approach was a major concern of unplanned stoppages on the production line. The canning process has manual activities such as soaking and sorting. Blanching is semi¬automatic while filling and seaming are fully automated. The filling station was identified as the bottleneck station due to its slow speed (145 cans/minute) as compared to the seamer (200 cans/minute). The major objective of this study was to evaluate how the productivity of the canning process was achieved. Efforts were made to increase the output of soaking, sorting and blanching. This led to the reduced cycle time of the filler and the elimination of sources of contaminations. Industrial engineering tools such as autonomous maintenance, total productive maintenance, total quality management and some of the 20 keys were used to improve the plant’s production output. This paper contributes to the theory of productivity improvement and to industry practitioners it highlights challenges faced when improving productivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f73612f9696b410caafcefce97ed87d32022-12-21T20:16:29ZengEDP SciencesMATEC Web of Conferences2261-236X2020-01-013120500410.1051/matecconf/202031205004matecconf_eppm2018_05004Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing FacilityMalatji Thabiso0Muyengwa Goodwell1EDP University of Johannesburg, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering TechnologyEDP University of Johannesburg, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering TechnologyThis paper investigates current productivity levels of baked beans in a fast manufacturing consumer goods (FMCG) company. The market demand for baked beans on average has increased by 14% year on year over the past two to three years. This growth was unexpected and was unplanned for, hence equipment was utilized to maximum capacity, at times ignoring maintenance issues. The outcome of this approach was a major concern of unplanned stoppages on the production line. The canning process has manual activities such as soaking and sorting. Blanching is semi¬automatic while filling and seaming are fully automated. The filling station was identified as the bottleneck station due to its slow speed (145 cans/minute) as compared to the seamer (200 cans/minute). The major objective of this study was to evaluate how the productivity of the canning process was achieved. Efforts were made to increase the output of soaking, sorting and blanching. This led to the reduced cycle time of the filler and the elimination of sources of contaminations. Industrial engineering tools such as autonomous maintenance, total productive maintenance, total quality management and some of the 20 keys were used to improve the plant’s production output. This paper contributes to the theory of productivity improvement and to industry practitioners it highlights challenges faced when improving productivity.https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2020/08/matecconf_eppm2018_05004.pdfautomationbottleneckcycle timeproductivity and total quality management |
| spellingShingle | Malatji Thabiso Muyengwa Goodwell Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility MATEC Web of Conferences automation bottleneck cycle time productivity and total quality management |
| title | Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility |
| title_full | Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility |
| title_short | Productivity Improvement in a Vegetable Canning Manufacturing Facility |
| title_sort | productivity improvement in a vegetable canning manufacturing facility |
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