A methodology for throughput capacity analysis of a production facility considering environment condition

Abbas Barabadi, Javad Barabady and Tore Markeset

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2011, vol. 96, issue 12, 1637-1646

Abstract: Throughput capacity of a production facility plays an important role in supporting managers and engineers in the decision making processes related to the design and optimization of a production plant. System throughput capacity is affected in complex ways by the reliability, maintainability, and capacity of its components. These in turn are considerably affected by operational environment such as ambient temperature, icing, dust, wind, etc. Therefore, in order to have an effective throughput capacity analysis (TCA), all influence factors (covariates) on these terms need to be identified; furthermore, their effect must be modeled and quantified by an appropriate statistical approach. The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for throughput capacity analysis considering environment condition. A simple case study is used to demonstrate how the methodology can be applied in a real case.

Keywords: Maintainability; Reliability; Throughput capacity analysis; Covariates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.09.001

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