Layout improvement method selection for a mass production facility

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2018

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Industrial Engineering
(1998)
Industrial Engineering is a field of engineering that develops and applies methods and techniques to design, implement, develop and improve systems comprising of humans, materials, machines, energy and funding. Our department was founded in 1998, and since then, has graduated hundreds of individuals who may compete nationally and internationally into professional life. Accredited by MÜDEK in 2014, our student-centered education continues. In addition to acquiring the knowledge necessary for every Industrial engineer, our students are able to gain professional experience in their desired fields of expertise with a wide array of elective courses, such as E-commerce and ERP, Reliability, Tabulation, or Industrial Engineering Applications in the Energy Sector. With dissertation projects fictionalized on solving real problems at real companies, our students gain experience in the sector, and a wide network of contacts. Our education is supported with ERASMUS programs. With the scientific studies of our competent academic staff published in internationally-renowned magazines, our department ranks with the bests among other universities. IESC, one of the most active student networks at our university, continues to organize extensive, and productive events every year.

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Purpose of this study is to identify, analyze, and propose a solution to an industrial problem that would satisfy the needs of a manufacturing company by using tools and techniques of Industrial Engineering. For this purpose, production system of a metal cap manufacturer company, which is a well-known mass production company in packaging industry since 1963 in Turkey, has been inspected. In the first part of the study, overall system has been analyzed, problem symptoms have been identified, and then the problem definition has been made. Two problems have been defined as: (i) insufficient production capacity, and (ii) inefficient production system. According to these findings, objectives of this study has been determined as: (i) the improvement of the efficiency of current system by making some layout changes and making small-scale investments, (ii) analyze large-scale investment alternatives in the long run and conduct engineering economic analysis of these investment alternatives. Within this scope, alternative solution approaches, analysis of these alternatives, and selection of best alternative have been accomplished. As a result of this study capacity of the facility can be increased by 16% and investment required for this increase has a payback period of 71 days. © IEOM Society International.

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ARTS ET METIERS ParisTech; Fraunhofer AUSTRIA; IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT; Igipm Laboratoire de genie Industriel et de production de Metz; TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT WIEN

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Engineering economy, Facilities planning, Investment planning, Layout arrangement

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management -- 2nd European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.IEOM 2018 -- 26 July 2018 through 27 July 2018 -- 140538

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2018

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455

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455

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/9499

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