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SIMULATION MODELING OF PRODUCTION LINES: A CASE STUDY OF CEMENT PRODUCTION LINE

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Mechanical, Power, Production, Design and Mechatronics Engineering.

Abstract

Modeling and simulation of production lines is considered to be important for designers who are interested in: Work-load Allocation Problem (WAP), Server Allocation Problem (SAP), and Buffer Allocation Problem (BAP). This paper studies and analyzes a real cement production line as a case study. A simulation model is developed by ARENA software and used to analyze and test several bottlenecks that are causing severe congestions in different areas on the production line and could resolve all of these bottlenecks. Workstation failure data is collected along one year to obtain the machines failure behaviors. This paper searches for the optimum buffer sizes with the increase of the production rate. An actual cement production line is studied and analyzed by the simulation model from stem to stern. After a simulation replication time of 12 days, a simulation results show the line bottlenecks, workstations utilization, buffer capacities and the line production rate. To resolve the bottlenecks, a redesign of allocation of buffers which verify an optimum size could be made and it might be taken into consideration when designers implement this line. Finally modified optimum workstations utilization, buffer capacities and the line production rate with an increase about more than 15% of the production rate and economizing of 34 % of buffer capacities.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2013.114780

Keywords

Production Lines, Buffer allocation, Simulation, Cement industry

Authors

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M.

Last Name

Heshmat

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Affiliation

Mechanical Engineering Department – Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut

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mhmdheshmat@gmail.com

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First Name

M. A.

Last Name

El-Sharief

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Mechanical Engineering Department – Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut

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First Name

M. G.

Last Name

El- Sebaie

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Mechanical Engineering Department – Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut

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Volume

41

Article Issue

No 3

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16851

Issue Date

2013-05-01

Receive Date

2012-12-03

Publish Date

2013-05-01

Page Start

1,045

Page End

1,053

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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JESAUN_Volume 41_Issue No 3_Pages 1045-1053.pdf

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Research Paper

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1,438

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Publication Title

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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SIMULATION MODELING OF PRODUCTION LINES: A CASE STUDY OF CEMENT PRODUCTION LINE

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23 Jan 2023