In today's production conditions, it is very important for companies to produce products that meet the determined quality
standards. In addition to the production of semi-finished products produced in plastic injection lines with high quality and
efficiency, it is aimed to reduce the lost time and waste materials in production. Since automobile headlights can be in many
different colors, it is necessary to keep the product quality at a high level in the transition between colors in the production made
by plastic injection and to reduce the number of defective products caused by color errors. In this study, the problem of a single
row-dependent machine to reduce the amount of waste that occurs between color transitions in the plastic injection line of an
automotive side-industry company producing headlights is discussed. Tabu Search method, which is one of the heuristic
optimization algorithms was used to solve the problem. In the solution, production sequences that will reduce the amount of
waste of the products in the production program were created by using the annual data kept by the production department of the
factory. The algorithm was run using data from two machines out of 18, saving 134 kg of waste materials. It has been clarified
that if the developed algorithm is applied to all machines in the department, productivity and product quality will be increased
by saving waste materials.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Engineering |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | May 28, 2021 |
Submission Date | April 21, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 9 Issue: 2 |