Equipment and process performance improvement using automated monitoring system

Factories are faced with many challenges especially with the increased product complexity along with tightened quality, yield and productivity indicators. Engineers working on maintaining, troubleshooting, design/improving equipments and process always lack of efficient tool to help them track equip...

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Main Author: Poobalan, Prakash
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/9865/1/PrakashPoobalanMFKM2009.pdf
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description Factories are faced with many challenges especially with the increased product complexity along with tightened quality, yield and productivity indicators. Engineers working on maintaining, troubleshooting, design/improving equipments and process always lack of efficient tool to help them track equipment state and improve the utilization. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness metric (OEE) is a very powerful tool that can be used to measure productivity at equipment level. Previous research has shown that OEE’s along with accurate and consistent equipment state data can be combined with process parameters to give estimates of productivity at the factory level. A factory monitoring tool that facilitates the analysis of a manufacturing system, by integrating KPIV and OEE metrics is studied in this project. Such a system allows factory professionals to analyze system performance by automatically evaluating the productivity metrics of equipment using the tool. This is extended to evaluate the metrics at subsystem level and thereon to the factory level and also to detect the bottleneck elements in the system. This tool paves way for further research on continuous productivity improvement methods development.
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spelling utm.eprints-98652018-06-13T07:07:55Z http://eprints.utm.my/9865/ Equipment and process performance improvement using automated monitoring system Poobalan, Prakash TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TS Manufactures Factories are faced with many challenges especially with the increased product complexity along with tightened quality, yield and productivity indicators. Engineers working on maintaining, troubleshooting, design/improving equipments and process always lack of efficient tool to help them track equipment state and improve the utilization. The Overall Equipment Effectiveness metric (OEE) is a very powerful tool that can be used to measure productivity at equipment level. Previous research has shown that OEE’s along with accurate and consistent equipment state data can be combined with process parameters to give estimates of productivity at the factory level. A factory monitoring tool that facilitates the analysis of a manufacturing system, by integrating KPIV and OEE metrics is studied in this project. Such a system allows factory professionals to analyze system performance by automatically evaluating the productivity metrics of equipment using the tool. This is extended to evaluate the metrics at subsystem level and thereon to the factory level and also to detect the bottleneck elements in the system. This tool paves way for further research on continuous productivity improvement methods development. 2009-05 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/9865/1/PrakashPoobalanMFKM2009.pdf Poobalan, Prakash (2009) Equipment and process performance improvement using automated monitoring system. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
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title_short Equipment and process performance improvement using automated monitoring system
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