TY - GEN
T1 - Overhead hoist transporter system utilization, simulation, and analysis for computer-integrated manufacturing in food process business
AU - Liu, Yu Chuan
AU - Yang, Shih Ming
AU - Gao, Hong Mei
AU - Chuang, Chun Yung
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With the rapid growth of manufacturing industry, China’s firms are demanding manufacturing equipments and requesting more and more services []. The bottleneck for realizing CIM systems in small-and-medium-sized enterprises was analyzed in [] and concluded that there is a lack of in-house knowledge about how to design a CIM system and how to implement the existing technological components to improve the manufacturing performance. CIM technology has been applied in China during the past decade. Zhou and Chuan [] presented a report of industrial field surveys for the CIM systems implemented in China. It was concluded that the education and training of employees, and received financial support from the government and technological support from universities, were the critical issues for the CIM project implementation. The objective of this paper is to present a case study for the OHT system design of a CIM project in food industry. Scopes and background information of the CIM project are illustrated in . The design problem of the OHT system and simulation results with respect to different production planning strategies are analyzed in . Some conclusions are summarized in .
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) has attracted many interests both in academic research and in practical implementation. Design and implementation of a CIM project involves the massive modeling, simulation, and verification of production operations, machines, and operators. Overhead hoist transporter (OHT) is one of the effective tools for the automated material handling system that often applied in CIM projects to ultimate the utilization of footprint of a factory. This paper presents a case study for the OHT system design in a CIM project for automated food processing production line. The effectiveness of the number of OHTs installed for the production line and the proper operation scenarios for different production planning are studied. Modeling and simulation results suggest an efficient OHT system design for the CIM project.
AB - Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) has attracted many interests both in academic research and in practical implementation. Design and implementation of a CIM project involves the massive modeling, simulation, and verification of production operations, machines, and operators. Overhead hoist transporter (OHT) is one of the effective tools for the automated material handling system that often applied in CIM projects to ultimate the utilization of footprint of a factory. This paper presents a case study for the OHT system design in a CIM project for automated food processing production line. The effectiveness of the number of OHTs installed for the production line and the proper operation scenarios for different production planning are studied. Modeling and simulation results suggest an efficient OHT system design for the CIM project.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-53778-3_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-53778-3_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906702403
SN - 9783642537776
T3 - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
SP - 451
EP - 459
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, EITRT 2013
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation, EITRT 2013
Y2 - 25 October 2013 through 27 October 2013
ER -