... set forth in regulations. This is in fact why we decided to combine two pieces of dust reduction equipment with the granite block polishing machine. It is this combination manufacturing system that is studied in the present work. This section defines the notations used throughout this article...

...Guy Richard Kibouka; Donatien Nganga-Kouya; Jean-Pierre Kenné; Vladimir Polotski; Victor Songmene Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find the optimal production and setup policies for a manufacturing system that produces two different types of parts. The manufacturing system consists of one...

... Manufacturing systems Decision making Decision support systems Maintenance Man‐machine‐maintenance‐economy model Maintenance impact on company business Problem area identification Production time losses Maintenance dynamic decisions According to the survey that has been done, there is a need...

...Hamid Allaoui; Philippe Castagliola; Robert Pellerin; F. Mhada; A. Hajji; R. Malhamé; A. Gharbi; R. Pellerin Purpose This paper seeks to address the production control problem of a failure‐prone manufacturing system producing a random fraction of defective items. Design/methodology/approach...

... that defective products are a consequence of global manufacturing system deterioration. Instead of taking into account machine failure and human error separately, it considers a defect in product as being the consequence of a combined failure; this consideration allows one to be more realistic by merging all...

... maintenance Optimization techniques Manufacturing systems Preventive maintenance and replacement describes a wide range of activities designed and performed in order to improve the overall reliability and availability of a system. All types of systems found in manufacturing, health care...

...Farhad Anvari; Rodger Edwards; Andrew Starr Purpose Continuous manufacturing systems used within the steel industry involve different machines and processes that are arranged in a sequence of operations in order to manufacture the products. The steel industry is generally a capital‐intensive...

... Manufacturing systems In a real production environment, equipment failures could have serious consequences on the competitiveness of a company. It is therefore crucial to have a maintenance program in place in order to increase the reliability, and thus, the availability, of production equipment...

... costs Optimization techniques Manufacturing systems Improvements in quality and reliability of industrial processes and reduction of operations and maintenance costs have became compulsory. In an increasingly competitive industrial market, operations and maintenance are important areas where...

... can be contacted at: robert.pellerin@polymtl.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Control systems Simulation Manufacturing systems Remanufacturing generally consists of the repair, replacement and/or modification of all components of a piece of equipment. The difficulty...

..., maintenance has been treated as a necessary evil and seen as an uncontrollable black box in operations. Maintenance efforts have usually been directed towards maintaining the basic equipment conditions of manufacturing systems, with reasonable success, and maintenance has often been a disregarded issue...

... Programming and algorithm theory Performance measurement (quality) Manufacturing systems Production planning This paper extends our previous work on the optimal design of series production lines with unreliable machines and finite buffers (Nourelfath et al., 2005). It deals...

... and effectiveness, and have also brought about appreciable improvements in other manufacturing functions in the organization. It has been observed that systematic interventions regarding TPM deployment have significantly contributed toward improving the manufacturing system productivity, quality, safety, morale...

... that the best features will have a more intensive pheromone. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Manufacturing systems Modelling Performance measurement (quality) Production planning Programming and algorithm theory Manufacturing production systems are often organized with machines...

...Mustapha Nourelfath; Daoud Ait‐kadi; Wassy Isaac Soro Reconfiguration mechanisms lead to the design of robust manufacturing systems which have the capability to allow the service continuity, in the presence of a failure, on the basis of a minimal degradation of performances. In this paper...