Integrated System Improvement and Optimization in SME Plywood Manufacturing

该项目将与西雅图产品公司合作进行，a魁北克蒙特利尔胶合板产品制造业中小型企业。西雅特生产高品质的模压胶合板座椅组件，并为当地居民提供稳定的就业机会，其中许多人是不同文化和其他背景的新移民。生产计划和调度、质量控制和改进、物料处理和物流优化是充分发挥这类行业生产系统潜力的科学方法。该合作伙伴组织已实施单元制造框架，以提高生产力和质量。拟议的项目是将有效的数据和信息管理方法、最佳生产调度、最佳库存管理以及先进的生产流程和管理流程整合到一个计算机化的、全公司范围的企业资源规划系统中。由于生产系统同时使用自动化机器和手动操作，因此在协调和优化要监控和控制的两种操作方面存在研究挑战。研究的结果将是基于科学方法的优化解决方案，从而实现高质量的产品，最佳的物料流和优化的库存水平。这些方法的执行将在一个综合的企业资源规划平台上进行协调，这是本项目的主要重点。ERP系统和相关的数据技术将使SEATORM在加拿大工业的这一非常重要的部门更具竞争力。进行这项研究的学生有不同的研究和文化背景，并将接受培训，以获得在真实的生产系统中进行研究的经验。这些经验将使他们更好地准备解决先进和灵活的制造系统中具有挑战性的实际问题。

The project is will be conducted in collaboration with SEATPLY Products Inc., a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in plywood products manufacturing in Montreal, Quebec. SEATPLY produces high quality molded plywood seating components and provides stable job opportunities to local population, many of them are new immigrants of diverse cultural and other backgrounds. Production planning and scheduling, quality control and improvement, material handling and material flow optimization are the scientific methods to achieve full potential of the production system in this type of industry. The partner organization has implemented cellular manufacturing framework for productivity and quality improvement. The proposed project is to integrate effective methods for data and information management, optimal production scheduling, optimal inventory management and advanced production process and management process in a computerized and company wide Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system. Since the production system uses both automated machines and manual operations, it creates research challenges in coordinating and optimizing both types of operations to be monitored and controlled. The outcome of the research will be optimized solutions based on scientific methods leading to high quality products, optimal material flows and optimized inventory levels. The execution of these methods will be coordinated on an integrated ERP platform which is the main focus of this project. The ERP system and associated data technology will enable SEATPLY to be more competitive in this very important sector of Canadian industry. The students conducting this research have diverse research and culture backgrounds and will be trained to gain experiences in conducting research in a real production system. Such experiences will make them much better prepared to solving challenging practical problems in advanced and flexible manufacturing systems.