Automating of Material Handling for Furniture and Shelving System Section at 'Taqaddom Scales Co.'

Abstract

This project deals with the production operations in one of the metal furniture production companies in Hebron (Taqaddom Scales Company), and a proposal for automating the handling system for one of its products (Shelving and Furniture). A brief description of the factory is performed, and then production operations of shelving system are described in detail. A mathematical model for this product is also presented, and then the manufacturing lead time is calculated for existing plant layout in the factory. A new layout is proposed based on automated handling system (conveyors) between workstations which is manual at this time, the required kinematical analysis is also done and the manufacturing lead time for proposed system is calculated. A comparison between the result of the used system and the proposed one is then shown.