A simulation based analysis of production scheduling in a steelmaking and continuous casting plant

Fanti, Maria Pia; Iacobellis, Giorgio; Rotunno, Giuliana; Ukovich, Walter

doi:10.1109/coase.2013.6654020

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“…With the swift development of computer technology, computer simulation theory and virtual reality technology make it possible great achievements was discussed by Maria Pia Fanti et.al. [3]. With even more complex decision structures, demand variation and the need for evaluating alternatives within this frame, simulation and simulation-optimization have been identified as key decision-making tools commented by James Bekker and Sylvain Guittet-Remaud [4].…”

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A case study on Simulation and Design optimization to improve Productivity in cooling tower manufacturing industry

Nithin

Gopikrishnan

Sumesh³

2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Abstract. Cooling towers are the heat transfer devices commonly found in industries which are used to extract the high temperature from the coolants and make it reusable in various plants. Basically, the cooling towers has Fills made of PVC sheets stacked together to increase the surface area exposure of the cooling liquid flowing through it. This paper focuses on the study in such a manufacturing plant where fills are being manufactured. The productivity using the current manufacturing method was only 6 to 8 fills per day, where the ideal capacity was of 14 fills per day. In this plant manual labor was employed in the manufacturing process. A change in the process modification designed and implemented will help the industry to increase the productivity to 14. In this paper, initially the simulation study was done using ARENA the simulation package and later the new design was done using CAD Package and validated using Ansys Mechanical APDL. It's found that, by the implementation of the safe design the productivity can be increased to 196 Units.

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