Analysis of Equipment Failure in a Production Line of a Coal Fly Ash Plant
Asser Letsatsi Tau,
Emmanuel Innocents Edoun,
Charles Mbohwa
et al.
Abstract:Most manufacturers are striving to manage and improve their operations at the perspective of manufacturing costs. Equipment failures and breakdowns should be kept at minimal as possible, thus to increase availability of equipment within a production line. A coal fly ash processing plant experienced continuous equipment breakdowns or failures which resulted in loss of production time. Data was collected on a 31 days period to identify types of failures or breakdown and their frequency of occurrences, and time s… Show more
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