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Sajid Khalifa
Part time student
Implementing product-end-of-life remanufacturing system using process sequence cell layouts
Research Project Outline
The enhancement of the MCFML design toolkit through these projects enabled MCFML production systems to provide an effective solution to bridge the gap between volume and variety oriented production systems. The new configurations of MCFML made them suitable for the aerospace industry and other industrial sectors involved in high product variety/low demand volume production. Benefits include MCFML systems that offer reduced levels of capital expenditure, reduced manufacturing costs and greater levels of flexibility to meet potentially unpredictable and varying order requirements for a wide range of components. The adoption of such system design configurations and supporting operational planning framework provided, in addition to the 1st and 2nd tier component manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers with the flexibility and competitiveness required to meet the increasing demands on part variety and reduction in product costs. This emphasises the timely contribution that the results from these projects has made and is continuing to make through technology transfer, dissemination and further research activities.
The research extended understanding of the fundamental effects of variability on flow processing lines such that mathematical models could be developed for estimating these effects and hence enabling more effective operations planning to be achieved. Being able to estimate the effects of variability on individual work stations along a flow line required a high level of scientific experimentation and insight to identify contributory flow line characteristics.
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