Productivity improvements in a Cyprus industry

Τίτλος

Productivity improvements in a Cyprus industry

Θέμα

Mineral industries--Labor productivity--Cyprus

Δημιουργός

Demetriou, Andreas

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

2004

Συνεισφέρων

Stassis, Andreas

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

MED0573

Σύνοψη

The purpose of this task was to locate a worIdng area in a business during Industrial Training, in order to observe the procedure followed for making certain products.
For that reason the locatipn of the machines and the movement of the components in the factory should be recorded and presented.
Also possible problems or bottlenecks should be identified.
Additionally suggestions for improving the productivity (output - rate of production) of the business and comments on the suggestions made should be noted.
The business selected is the Metalco (Heaters) Ltd industry.
The time spend there was approximately one month. All the relevant infonnation was selected, including pictures, photographs showing the location and movement of the machines and the machine setters or operators, recorded times needed for the different tasks, tables indicating the characteristics of the products being made, appropriate graphs etc.
All the above material will be needed in order to fulfill this project work.
Searching through the project someone will fmd that in the Solar Collectors case the production rate was increased from 44 to 106 pieces per day basically by only buying two machines of the same kind. Of course other changes were made concerning the rest of the Workstati9ns. Changes that is more practical in order to get better results (i.e. reducing the corresponding time of each and different W orkstation to fulfill the certain task).
By DOUBLING the production (without having to pay a lot of money) which is what
was expected it can be defmitely said that the improvements made are true and this project work was successfully carried out.
The same thing applies and for the Hot Water Tanks case. The rate of production was also become more than the DOUBLE, fact that is more than satisfactory.
As a fmal comment I would like to say that this subject is very interesting and challenging as well, for someone that wants to investigate record and present the results that will obtain. I am very pleased with the job done and with the fmal results and conclusions that have came up.