Throughput for Steel Pipes Manufacturing Process Design

To increase productivity, new automatic production lines are introduced driven by adequate computer hardware and software. While determining production process characteristics for building complex product such as steel vessel, special consideration is given to dimensioning and defining capacity of production equipment and working places. Process characteristics should accomplish building and outfitting dynamics of such product, in mode not to result in sub capacity or overcapacity of the production process. In case of process overcapacity, manufacturing time will be prolonged or temporary production stoppage will occur. In case of process sub capacity, production line will function within normal circumstances with increased degree of spare capacity, while certain process segments will be idle. Modern production line should have such technical and technological characteristics as to insure disposition of required resources and to enable continuous production. Production line has frequently higher capacity than needed. To avoid such case, important is to know requirements dynamics, and on that bases to determine characteristic dimensions and manageability of production process. Process dynamic estimation can be achieved in several ways 1 : – by data analysis for previous time period as a base for calculation and forecasting capacity of new production line. – by date analysis similar production program, for vessel types that are planned to be built within the system in longer time period.