Docente

prof.ssa Antonella MENEGHETTI

Credits

6 CFU

Language

Italian

Objectives

This course aims at providing students with basic elements concerning configuration and management of industrial facilities.

Acquired skills

- Modelling a  layout problem and solving by well-known algorythms.
- Recognising configurations and management options of industrial warehouses and material handling systems.
- Identifyng factors affecting productivity of industrial facilities.
- Moving from fundamentals of  theory of reliability for a single element, calculating reliability of a system.
- Recognising main approaches and methodolgies for maintenance of industrial facilities.

Lectures and exercises (Topics and specific content)

Production capacity and productivity: total and single factor productivity, capital and capacity utilization, utilization and efficiency indexes, productivity in parallel and serial systems (8 hours).
Reliability and Maintainability: reliability definition and measures (MTBF and hazard rate), life distributions; system reliability models, series and parallel systems, key element method, path sets, cut sets, fault tree analysis; maintainability definition and measures, repair time distributions; availability definition and measures (11 hours).
Maintenance Management: corrective maintenance, preventive maintenance (periodical, predictive, condition-based maintenance) Total Productive Maintenance, spare parts management (8 hours).
Plant layout: layout configurations and materials flow paths, Systematic Layout Planning: from-to chart, relationship chart, graphical methods (spiral technique, travel charting, relationship diagramming and graph, deltahedron heuristic), Quadratic Assignment Problem, computer-based building (ALDEP, CORELAP) and improving (CRAFT) algorithms  (7 hours).
Packaging: packaging configurations, containerization and unit loads, palletization and stabilization. Bar coding (EAN13 code) (5 hours).
Industrial warehousing: stocking facilities for unit loads (racks, dynamic storage systems, automated storage and retrieval systems), for cartoon and small parts (shelves, carousels, miniload), for special materials; storage density and load selectivity indexes; storage location assignment and order picking; fast pick areas (13 hours).
Materials Handling: industrial trucks, hand and motorized trucks, cranes, AGVS; turning radius and storage space requirements; storage and retrieval cycles, single and dual command cycles (8 hours).

References

- A. Meneghetti, Dispense del corso

Type of exam

Written

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