The project client, for this case study, would like to move toward the manufacturing strategy of Continuous Flow Manufacturing. This philosophy concentrates on maximizing throughput while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating expense. The initial phase of the project addressed the documentation of the production process at the company, and identification of process constraints. A cons...

In context to the manufacturing situation in the shop floor, work-in-process (WIP) management or the in-process inventory and control as the inevitable result of the production process have become the key link of production plan. Due to the growing production requirements and the potential economic benefits of manufacturing process flow, enterprises have been pushed to integrate work-in-process...

A small furniture production company has integrated lean tools and sustainability concepts with discrete event simulation modeling and analysis as well as mathematical optimization to make a positive impact on the environment, society and its own financial success. The principles of lean manufacturing that aid in the elimination of waste have helped the company meet ever increasing customer dem...

Abstract. The modern unification of the European standards EUROCODE requires securing a constant quality of metallurgical production in the EU countries. In this paper, experimentally found statistical characteristics of yield stress, ultimate tensile strength and ductility of Czech and Austrian steel are presented. In the probabilistic reliability analysis, the experimentally found yield stres...

Steel surface defect detection is essentially one of pattern recognition problems. Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are known as one of the most proper classifiers in this application. In this paper, we introduce a more accurate classification method by using SVMs as our final classifier of the inspection system. In this scheme, multiclass classification task is performed based on the ”one-agains...

This article presents theoretical basis of spare parts inventory management in manufacturing company. Basis definitions, allocation and differences in spare parts inventory management were compared with other manufacturing inventories. The issue of spare parts inventory management is emphasized in aspect of maintaining continuity of production and generated costs of maintaining inventory.