Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is key equipment effectiveness measuring tool in the implementation of total productive maintenance (TPM). Due to the limitations of handling dynamic production loss, a deterministic ...

Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) are used to increase and/or maintain operational availability in both industries where failures result in catastrophic damage and scrap output. Even if increasing/ ...

Industrial Engineers combine people, resources, equipment, and technologies together to improve the system, productivity and processes. Lean manufacturing and work-study are used to minimize NVA activities association ...

The study explain the use of DMAIC methodology of six sigma to minimize the defect rate in Coffee Processing and Warehouse Enterprise (CPWHE) Addis Ababa .It is a systematic approach towards defects minimization through ...

Taguchi‟s method is a powerful problem solving for improving quality of the product and its basic principle which examine the effects of many process variables and identify those factors which have major effects on process ...

In manufacturing industries, meeting the dynamically changing need of customers and delivery times is the key to stay at the apex of global or national competitions. Manufacturing system consists and integrates entities ...

Nowadays, due to high level of competition and survival request in a business world, it requires business firms to measure, analyze and improve their technology diffusion level as they encounter increasing ...

This thesis mainly focuses on application of line balancing to minimize idle time of work station in production line. The methodology adopted includes calculation of cycle time of process, identifying bottleneck, calculating ...

Quality Management Systems (QMS) makes a powerful contribution toward the competitiveness of corporations. However, the evidence of QMS in Amhara Pipe factory (APF) indicates that focus only their certification. Therefore, ...

Productivity is one of the main concerns of manufacturing companies and there are several factors that limit their productivity. Losses in production are the inabilities of the productivity; and downtime is significant ...