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In Thailand, teak harvesting always includes skidding of tree-length stems from the landing to the log yard for further processing. When terrain does not set limitations for the machines to be used, skidding is carried out by farm tractors. In this study, data was collected from 10 work cycles of teak extraction to simulate the productivity of farm tractors. The GNSS data as speed and locations were used to extract operational distances and time consumption, as well as to support productivity simulation. For this, detailed measurements were done on the extracted stems to collect their diameters and lengths. For approximately six stems per load, the mean load size was 1.723 m3. The study found that mean productivity was 17.4 m3/h during the survey, where the mean extraction distance was 217 m. Our simulation presents productivity diagrams in relation to skidding distance. By simulation, we detected that reducing the full operational speed by 1 km/h would decrease productivity by 1 m3/h when the extraction distance is less than 100 m. Another observation was that even small reductions in load sizes have a remarkable effect on productivity over short distances. Until large-scale studies are to be done to evaluate productivity in relation to variations in load size and extraction distance, the results shown herein could stand as a basis for productivity assessments.

This paper presents electrical systems and equipments maintenance planning of rice mill factory using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). This methodology is effectively maintenance planning which focuses on critical components for system reliability improvement. The rice mill plant which has production capacity as four hundred tons per day is considered to be studying in this model. Maintenance activities are chosen and prioritized from the benefit to cost analysis using the rice mill outage cost and maintenance cost.

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