SAFETY AUDIT IN HATCHING COMPANY

A safety audit in a hatching company in order to improve the hatching quality and poultry breeding, poultry products and production by reducing risk factors and improving safety was performed. In the article is discussed the safety audit consisting of several parts such as an audit questionnaire and FMEA methods (analysis of causes and consequences of failures) where there are specified potential risks arising at work. These risks are evaluated, and corrective measures are defined to reduce the formation of potential risks. It examines the process of retraining employees on occupational safety and health, personal protective equipment and fire protection. To optimize the production, a compound feed production programme was designed

RELIABILITY MONITORING OF GRAIN HARVESTER IN OPERATING CONDITIONS

Reliability and quality are strongly linked between each other although people are often confused and consider these to be the same. Quality is defined as the ability to satisfy requirements that customers had determined or expected. If an organization manages to fulfill preconditions and requirements, it has a potential that customers will continue to use its products while buying new ones. Reliability can be named as an indicator expressing the probability that a product will perform the function it was made for and for a period specified in given operating conditions. In this work, we have focused on monitoring the specific parameters in two types of grain harvesters in operating conditions

Monitoring the Capability of Production Equipment in Organization

This work is focused on determining the capability of production equipment in Volkswagen Slovakia, a.s. during the moulding of a car door. There were taken 150 samples from the moulding process that followed each other. Values were recorded on a Wenzel RAplus 1625 measuring machine. Subsequently, process stability was verified. It showed that measured values had a stable average value, and the process did not show irregularities in the diagrams of the X card and s card. After verification of stability, the values of Cm and Cmk were calculated, which exceeded the minimum requirement of 1.66 and 1.67, and the requirements for the capability of production equipment have thereby been met

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Production Process Using Pareto Analysis

The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities of using the Pareto method in evaluating the effectiveness of machine production processes. The paper deals with the production process of material cutting using progressive technology and subsequent evaluation of its effectiveness and quality. In the production process, we have used the method of material cutting by abrasive water jet. The Pareto analysis was used for eliminating the shortcomings in the quality of the final part

Quality Control in Production Processes

The tools for quality management are used for quality improvement throughout the whole Europe and developed countries. Simple statistics are considered one of the most basic methods. The goal was to apply the simple statistical methods to practice and to solve problems by using them. Selected methods are used for processing the list of internal discrepancies within the organization, and for identification of the root cause of the problem and its appropriate solution. Seven basic quality tools are simple graphical tools, but very effective in solving problems related to quality. They are called essential because they are suitable for people with at least basic knowledge in statistics; therefore, they can be used to solve the vast majority of problems

Utilization of MBNQA criteria in quality management evaluation in agribusiness companies

Quality management system is important part of management in every standard organization. Paper is oriented on evaluation of quality management in agribusiness companies. There are included results of research based on 18 companies providing agriculture production. Representatives of each company fulfilled the questionnaire consisted of 104 items (divided into 7 categories according to MBNQA). These companies achieved an average score 647 points out of possible 1000 points. The best results were seen in the area of business leadership, the worst in orientation on customer and results. Other results of research identified quality management system as the most important factor to influence answers of respondents

Microbreweries as an emerging trend in slovak brewing industry. Quality or price?

The paper deals with trends in development of beer industry in Slovakia. It is focused on the establishing of new microbreweries. Slovak beer market is characterized by high concentration (as a result of globalisation). More than 80% of beer consumption in Slovakia origins from two large international companies – Heineken Slovakia (owned by Heineken Corporation) and Pivovary Topvar (owned by SAB Corporation) which bought the traditional domestic beer brands. Microbreweries cover only about 4% of the total market share. Beer consumption was 94 litres per capita (annually) in 2002 but decreased significantly to 73 litres per capita (annually) in 2011. In 2012 and 2013 small increase in beer consumption was achieved. Due to the smaller consumption the production decreased as well. However, new innovative methods and formulas (Radlers, alcohol free beers, premium beers…) helped to stop the decrease of beer production in recent years, partially thanks to the quality beers produced by the new established microbreweries. The results are based on data of The Brewers of Europe and Slovak Beer and Malt Association. To identify the motives for establishing microbreweries, the interviews with owners and managers of Slovak microbreweries were held

Influence of Machine Exploitation Effectiveness on Furniture Production Quality Level

One of the most important factors determining the company‘s capacity to produce high quality products is the level of machinery operation effectiveness. Companies having modern machinery are characterized by high productivity. To obtain a high quality product, the equipment should be properly used, without any failure, which contributes significantly to the exploitation level increase. The modernity level and the exploitation effectiveness level for chosen machine producing furniture components in relation to the product quality level were analysed in the paper. As a result of the research findings analysis, proposals for corrective actions with regard to machinery maintenance and production processes were presented

Influence of Roughness on Quality Molybdenum Deposit Layer by Thermal Spraying

In this paper we deal with the impact of roughness on the quality of molybdenum layer. Insufficient cleaning may result in a poor quality of the sprayed layer. Our aim is to analyze the influence of surface roughness on the quality of molybdenum layer thickness applied by thermal spraying. Thermal spraying influence several physical and chemical properties of the coating surface. The most important ones include: hardness, density, porosity, corrosion resistance and adhesion. This technology of surface treatment of material is often used for its high degree of hardness. Hardness and erosion resistance are the parameters that need to be achieved particularly in working conditions where there is excessive depreciation of a component

Foreign ownership as a driver of qualiaty management in Slovak agribusiness: applying MBNQA Model

Despite attention being paid to quality management in the literature, little empirical research has been conducted on developing the link between adoption of quality management approach and business performance in agricultural enterprises, and moreover, only a few empirical studies have investigated this issue in Central and Eastern Europe. The conducted empirical survey examines the relationship between adopting the quality management approach and business performance from the perspective of agricultural enterprises in Slovakia. The empirical findings are based on 70 responses from agribusinesses in Slovak Republic. To measure the adopting of quality management approach the MBNQA model was used. The authors have used linear regression as an evaluation method. Based on the results it can be concluded the adopting of quality management approach is determined by ownership. The enterprises owned by the owner from abroad adopt the quality management approach more readily than the domestic ones. This study contributes to the European research that studies the relation between quality management and business performance of agribusinesses by means of an empirical investigation in agricultural organizations in a transition economy such as Slovakia