Manufacturing, Simulation and Implementation of Concurrent Engineering to Improve ProductionA Case Study in Palm Oil Industry

ABSTRACT: The objective of this thesis is to improve the performance of a medium size industrial manufacturing plant by studying the effects of its production line and developing a proposed model of the production stages of the system via computer simulations. The study has been carried out over an industrial case; Cameroon Development Corporation (C.D.C) is a palm oil manufacturing factory located in Limbe – Cameroon, which intends to invest on upgrading some of the production stages or by constructing another plant in the near future. This study aims to define the requirements and methods of simulation implementation for this selected case to improve its throughput and delivery performance in batch production. The proposed system is basically focused on modeling and simulation of the palm oil production lines of selected case via Activplant computer simulation tool. Then, the existing model is modified to test the several aspects by implementing computer simulation for achieving better performance and effectiveness in continuous production. The result of this simulation study is expected to be useful reference to the factory under study for its process of improvement. Keywords: Simulation, Modeling, Batch production, Continuous production. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………