A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique

In current manufacturing industry, competitiveness is high in producing components in a shorter period and high quality. This thesis is based on a work to assist local manufacturing industries to optimise their production capability through the implementation of Group Technology (GT) concept. A comp...

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Main Author: Suberamaniam, K.
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spelling my-utm-ep.69242012-05-03T07:17:17Z A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique 2000 Suberamaniam, K. TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery In current manufacturing industry, competitiveness is high in producing components in a shorter period and high quality. This thesis is based on a work to assist local manufacturing industries to optimise their production capability through the implementation of Group Technology (GT) concept. A computer program was developed based on Prof. Burbidge's Production Flow Analysis (PFA) method. Sample data for the machine-component grouping was obtained from a case study involving a machine shop. The computer program was used to form machine-part groupings. Initially the computer program formed five machine-part groupings. Later detailed study of the groupings resulted in three final cells. Group Analysis and Line Analysis studies were carried out on these cells to determine the number of machines of each type to be allocated in each machine group. Finally the proposed layout was simulated using WITNESS software to evaluate and justify the implementation of GT based Cellular Manufacturing (CM) cells on the selected case study. 2000 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/6924/ http://sps.utm.my masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Suberamaniam, K.
A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
description In current manufacturing industry, competitiveness is high in producing components in a shorter period and high quality. This thesis is based on a work to assist local manufacturing industries to optimise their production capability through the implementation of Group Technology (GT) concept. A computer program was developed based on Prof. Burbidge's Production Flow Analysis (PFA) method. Sample data for the machine-component grouping was obtained from a case study involving a machine shop. The computer program was used to form machine-part groupings. Initially the computer program formed five machine-part groupings. Later detailed study of the groupings resulted in three final cells. Group Analysis and Line Analysis studies were carried out on these cells to determine the number of machines of each type to be allocated in each machine group. Finally the proposed layout was simulated using WITNESS software to evaluate and justify the implementation of GT based Cellular Manufacturing (CM) cells on the selected case study.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Suberamaniam, K.
author_facet Suberamaniam, K.
author_sort Suberamaniam, K.
title A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
title_short A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
title_full A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
title_fullStr A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
title_full_unstemmed A study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (PFA) simulation technique
title_sort study in cellular manufacturing using production flow anylysis (pfa) simulation technique
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Mechanical Engineering
granting_department Mechanical Engineering
publishDate 2000
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