Product Families Development and Simulation of Well Completion System Products by Using Business Simulation Software

Particularly, high - mix, low - volume manufacturing industries such as companies that produce Christmas Tree components are very common these days. Being in high product mix, process flow is hard to be seen when products have a multitude of options, variations in production lead times. Besides, manufacturing organizations will also be constrained on capacity issue. Resources have to be shared and it is difficult to dedicate equipment to any specific of product. Productive manufacturing industries should have a total understanding on how their production system is performed so that the right product families can be developed. Inaccurate product families might result in creating more wastes such as bottleneck which eventually a longer production lead time will be required for a product to be manufactured. This project paper is about developing a new model of product families for a manufacturer that produce Christmas Tree components. The new model of product families is expected to reduce the production lead time. Product families that have been developed will be simulated by using Business Simulation Software – WITNESS. A new model of product families will be compared with existing product families. The new model of product families will be accepted if production lead time can be improved by five percent. The methodology of forming product families will be based techniques discussed by Duggan (2012) – Creating Mixed Model Value Streams

Value Stream Mapping for Formation of Product Families

Customers tend to have various needs, desires, and manufacturers are looking for ways to respond to these multiple needs efficiently and effectively. They try to offer their customers multiple products with the shortest delivery time and minimum cost while maintaining customers’ desired quality. One of the strategies that help manufacturers meet their customers\u27 needs is customization. However, to manage this strategy\u27s downsides, manufacturers need to maintain a particular variety level to reduce production costs and time. There are many methodologies to manage the variety. One of the most important ones is creating product families, that is possible to form through many different approaches; From considering BOM to process sequences. This research believes value stream is an effective means to form product families. This thesis, studies different family forming methodologies, and moves through investigating the value stream map of some products, then forms the families within a case study. Manufacturing data was collected from the past year and it was processed by process flow analysis, value stream maps and rank order clustering methods. Then, this research recognized the variants and calculated the similarity and volume coefficients to form product families. Finally, learning curve analysis evaluated the results of formed product families. The formed product families can help the manufacturer reduce waiting times and improve process cycle times

Platform driven development of product families : linking theory with practice

Firms in most industries increasingly are considering platform-based approaches to reduce complexity and better leverage investments in product design, manufacturing and marketing. Literature addresses a variety of concepts related to platform thinking: component standardization, product architecture, product platform, process platform, customer platform, brand platform, global platform and product family development. In our paper we provide an overview of key topics related to platform and product family development as found in literature. We also use a multiple-case approach to investigate why and how three technology-driven companies adopted platform thinking in their development process. We discuss the rationale, but also the perceived risks and associated problems behind the process to create and manage product families and their underlying platforms. In the paper we will further show that although widely advocated, the knowledge and experience of how to apply platforms and product families in product development, platform driven development of product families is still only a young emerging field, both in theory and in practice

RMS capacity utilisation: product family and supply chain

yesThe paper contributes to development of RMS through linkage with external stakeholders such as customers and suppliers of parts/raw materials to handle demand fluctuations that necessitate information sharing across the supply chain tiers. RMS is developed as an integrated supply chain hub for adjusting production capacity using a hybrid methodology of decision trees and Markov analysis. The proposed Markov Chain model contributes to evaluate and monitor system reconfigurations required due to changes of product families with consideration of the product life cycles. The simulation findings indicate that system productivity and financial performance in terms of the profit contribution of product-process allocation will vary over configuration stages. The capacity of an RMS with limited product families and/or limited model variants becomes gradually inoperative whilst approaching upcoming configuration stages due to the end of product life cycles. As a result, reconfiguration preparation is suggested quite before ending life cycle of an existing product in process, for switching from a product family to a new/another product family in the production range, subject to its present demand. The proposed model is illustrated through a simplified case study with given product families and transition probabilities

Linearization coefficients for orthogonal polynomials using stochastic processes

Given a basis for a polynomial ring, the coefficients in the expansion of a product of some of its elements in terms of this basis are called linearization coefficients. These coefficients have combinatorial significance for many classical families of orthogonal polynomials. Starting with a stochastic process and using the stochastic measures machinery introduced by Rota and Wallstrom, we calculate and give an interpretation of linearization coefficients for a number of polynomial families. The processes involved may have independent, freely independent or q-independent increments. The use of noncommutative stochastic processes extends the range of applications significantly, allowing us to treat Hermite, Charlier, Chebyshev, free Charlier and Rogers and continuous big q-Hermite polynomials. We also show that the q-Poisson process is a Markov process.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000757 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Technologies to develop technology: the impact of new technologies on the organisation of the innovation process.

Companies are under increasing pressure to develop new product more effectively and efficiently. In order to meet this challenge, the organisation of the new product development process has received ample attention both in the academic literature and in the practitioner literature. As a consequence, a myriad of methods to design new products has been developed. These methods aim at facilitating concurrent product design and engineering. However, it is only recently, through the advent of families of new design technologies, that concurrency really becomes possible. In this paper, research on the impact of new design technologies on the product development process is reported and discussed. It is demonstrated that these technologies can have a significant impact on the organisation of innovation processes.Processes;

How to obtain division algebras from a generalized Cayley-Dickson doubling process

New families of eight-dimensional real division algebras with large derivation algebra are presented: We generalize the classical Cayley-Dickson doubling process starting with a unital algebra with involution over a field F by allowing the scalar in the doubling to be an invertible element in the algebra. The resulting unital algebras are neither power-associative nor quadratic. Starting with a quaternion division algebra D, we obtain division algebras A for all invertible scalars chosen in D outside of F. This is independent on where the scalar is placed inside the product and three pairwise non-isomorphic families of eight-dimensional division algebras are obtained. Over the reals, the derivation algebra of each such algebra A is isomorphic to $su(2)\oplus F$ and the decomposition of A into irreducible su(2)-modules has the form 1+1+3+3 (denoting an irreducible su(2)-module by its dimension). Their opposite algebras yield more classes of pairwise non-isomorphic families of division algebras of the same type. We thus give an affirmative answer to a question posed by Benkart and Osborn in 1981.Comment: 23 pages; extended versio

Resource Modelling for the QC Laboratory at XYZ Pharmaceuticals in Southern Africa

Quality control (QC) laboratories are critical components in drug manufacturing and running them efficiently contributes to better, consistent supply of cost-effective quality products, while also and preventing deaths due to untimely delivery or unavailability of medicines. Having a resource modelling tool to estimate resources needed to handle a particular demand in a given system is essential for efficient running of QC laboratory. This study was done to establish such a model at XYZ Pharmaceuticals. The list of all products manufactured by XYZ Pharmaceuticals Southern Africa was reviewed; and product families for all products were identified. Analysts’ hands on time (HOT) to process one sample of each of the product families was estimated. The number of analysts required to support the workload at XYZ Pharmaceuticals was calculated using the HOTs for the different product families and the Maslaton’s Calculation Model. A baseline resource model was established

Mobile Application for Productive Families Business

In line with Vision 2030 KSA, to enable women economically by promoting and marketing family-made products at the lowest-cost. Moreover, Saudi productive families' projects considered as one of the main sources promote employment opportunities especially for low-income families. our project promotes self-employment by manufacturing products variety. The research aims to create a suitable-safe working environment for low-income families capable of producing goods. Furthermore, it to improve product quality through customer interaction. This search was carried out by building an Android application written in java, android studio and Firebase. In fact, we aspire to manage productive family projects with a one-application which ensures that risks are reduced while saving consumer effort with multiple options for the same product. As a result of the project's implementation low-income families market their products professionally and effectively. Also, the application allows consumers to evaluate items after receiving the service to be used for optimizations process

Political Family and Intra-Party Democracy in Indonesia. (a Study on the Political Recruitment of the Golkar Party During the Reform Era in South Sulawesi)

This paper looks at the political family involved in the local politics in South Sulawesi, particularly the political recruitment mechanism and political party institutionalization from the intra-party democracy perspective. Based on qualitative analysis, the findings of this research show that, firstly, a large number of political families in Golkar Party at South Sulawesi are a product of the oligarchymeritocratic political recruitment. Political legacies such as activities in social and political organizations give more advantages for the political families both in the political recruitment process and the access to power. Secondly, the weakness of Golkar Party\u27s institutionalization is showed by the dependence of Golkar Party to the party\u27s elite and the existence of factionalization within the party. As a result of such weakness, several party leaders resign from Golkar Party, thereby strengthening the role of political families in the political recruitment process. 50% of the 2014 electoral vote for the Golkar Party in the South Sulawesi Parliament has been largely contributed by the political families