| Title: | A plant simulation approach for optimal resource utilization: a case study in the tire manufacturing industry |
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| Authors: | ID Butrat, A. (Author)
ID Supsomboon, S. (Author) |
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| Files: |  APEM17-2_243-255.pdf (2,70 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
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| Abstract: | In this study, the resource allocation and vital manufacturing processes in the tire manufacturing industry was comprehensively optimized. The paper deals in detail with the Banbury mixing process, which produces homogeneous rubber materials for tire components. In addition, the mixing process models were established by the Plant Simulation software to validate and compare scenarios and experiments with realistic production constraints. Discrete empirical distribution (dEmp) was proposed for population data. Various scenarios were created for different resource and process. Experiments were set as different group of compound set. Experiment manager was used as a tool to set up scenarios and the experiments to provide alternative results. The study results display the production time and machine utilization. The shortest production time of experiment results represents the best group of each scenario. As results, the scenario, which BB1 is changed from non-productive Banbury mixer to special Banbury mixer along with the normal process is combined with second special process, provides the suitable production volume which can reduce of total production time for 8.06 %. Our study provides a variety of the resource utilization of a Banbury mixing process and suggests an efficient optimization method for production performance improvement. |
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| Keywords: | manufacturing, resource utilization, bottleneck, optimization, simualtion modelling, discrete-event simulation, DES, discrete empirical distribution, tires, rubber, banbury mixer, tecnomatix plant simulation |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 22.11.2021 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 13.06.2022 |
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| Publication date: | 31.08.2022 |
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| Publisher: | Fakulteta za strojništvo, Inštitut za proizvodno strojništvo |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 243-255 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 17, no. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-97227  |
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| UDC: | 658.5 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1854-6250 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 269412867 |
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| DOI: | 10.14743/apem2022.2.434 |
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| Copyright: | Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation, and DOI.
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 24.02.2026 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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