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The subject of this paper is the simulation study into the improvement of the production process of floorboard middle layer. The object of our interest in the manufacturing process of wooden floorboard which consists of three layers: lower—made of softwood pieces glued together; middle—in a form a module, made of softwood slats and plywood, and hardwood upper layer. The process improvement involved a better use of raw materials in the form of plats (of variable dimension groups) by reducing losses caused by defects such as wane and knots. A simulation model of the manufacturing process was created by using DES software. Thanks to that model, buffers size and a performance of the designed systems including their anticipated breakdowns were estimated. As a result of the study, a concept of the entire production system meeting the requested production capacity and material efficiency was devised.
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The authors would like to thank Piotr Hoffman and Łukasz Hetman from Barlinek for their help with providing the accurate data and for thoughtful comments on our work. The results presented in the paper come from the R&D project: Improvement of raw wood efficiency in the industrial production processes, BIOSTRATEG2/298950/1/NCBR/2016, run by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (in cooperation with Barlinek, a floorboard manufacturer in Poland), supported by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) from the financial means within the BIOSTRATEG programme.
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Bartkowiak, T., Ciszak, O., Jablonski, P., Myszkowski, A., Wisniewski, M. (2018). A Simulative Study Approach for Improving the Efficiency of Production Process of Floorboard Middle Layer. In: Hamrol, A., Ciszak, O., Legutko, S., Jurczyk, M. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68619-6_2
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