Production efficiency evaluation and products' quality improvement using simulation

Abstract

Every manufacturing company producing products of any kind is forced to constantly address the issue of improving the efficiency of its production lines, increasing their production capacity and last but not least, increasing the quality of products. Every physical intervention directly in the production process results in a change in the efficiency of this process. It may be a change for the better, but often such a change may not have the expected effect. Today's era of digital industrialization offers us the opportunity to verify possible changes in the production process without physically interfering with existing production, and thus it is also possible to verify the real consequences of the intervention. The present paper deals with improving the efficiency and quality of products in the production process in the food industry. It is the production of various types of packaged salads, cod and other types of fish. The aim of the paper is to test the possibility of improving the efficiency of the packaging line for food products as well as the possibility to improve their quality by applying sensors of foreign bodies of various kinds, which can sometimes get into salads.