Search for More Productive Special Processes - Industrial Engineering Activity

L.D. Miles made contacting the experts who develop more productive processes in specific technologies an important activity in value engineering. He included as one of the techniques of value engineering. He termed it "Utilize Specialty Processes."

How many special processes do you know in your branch of engineering and in the engineering tasks carried out in your organization?

What is a special process?

L.D. Miles gave the following answer. There are two types of special processes.

1. They accomplish functions that can be performed in no other way.

2. They accomplish "the functions they perform" equally well as compared to other alternative processes, but at much lower cost.

There are large number of processes in the second category, but engineers in many organizations do not know them as they do not search for them and become aware of them.

L.D. Miles gives another classification of processes.

1. Processes which are known to engineers within an organization and reasonably well understood by them and are being used in the process plans.

2. Processes which are not known to the engineers, but which would be applicable and would accomplish the desired ends at very much lower cost.

It is the responsibility of industrial engineers to make efforts and identify this category of processes for every engineering activity carried out in the organization.

Such special processes may already exist, may be under development or they can be developed, if an organization approaches competent men in that specific technology. Industrial engineers have to establish direct contact with technology specialists and consultants to know the present state of the art in engineering element used by their organization.

 Utilize specialty processes and special tools

Miles defines specialty process as an applicable process which would reliably accomplish the needed function for significantly lower cost and which either exists or could, and would be developed by some one who leads in the technology involved if he understood the need for it.

Miles gave the opinion that even persons engaged in value work take time to recognize specialty processes. In 1961, he gave the delay as three years. Other engineers take around 10 years to recognize specialty processes. The purpose of identifying and emphasizing this point in the list of VE techniques is to reduce this time lag.

To reiterate value engineers, product industrial engineers and process industrial engineers have to put in routine that searches for special processes and contacts the persons who are known for creating special processes in specific products and processes to become aware of them, evaluate them and adopt them in their organizations.

Special tools also provide value opportunities. Value engineers have to be on the lookout for appearance of special tools.


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Illustrations

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2020

Have you read about InvoMilling?
Gear Machining Productivity


2019

Higher Productivity
Converting from brazing to flame-free RLS Press Fittings can result in significant time and cost savings and substantially higher productivity. Eliminating the brazing process means installations can be completed up to 60% faster.

RLS Press Fittings let you make a permanent and reliable mechanical connection in just 10 seconds. Tube ends are prepped in nearly the same way as brazing, but the press tool does all the connection work for you in just seconds.
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24th October 2019, Mönchengladbach

Truetzschler’s portal solution for higher productivity.
Careful bale opening is a fundamental pillar of this process. Only in this way, a homogenous tuft flow is ensured for optimal downstream processing.

The latest Truetzschler innovation in the blowroom Portal Bale Opener BO-P is designed to allow significantly more bales to be placed side by side and processes them in parallel using two opening rolls. This results in significantly better blending and higher productions of up to 3,000 kg/h, according to the manufacturer.
https://www.innovationintextiles.com/truetzschlers-portal-solution-for-higher-productivity/


Higher productivity through automated sanding process
27 May 2019
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1VjS0Rego
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In order to prepare air tanks of compressors for painting, an exact sanding process is necessary. Previously, this had to be carried out in a labor intensive, stressful and time-consuming manual work step.
By automating the previously manual grinding process using the Active Orbital Kit AOK from FerRobotics, not only a higher and consistent quality could be achieved, but also a significant reduction in cycle times. Due to its interactive contour tracking and active force control, the AOK adapts perfectly to the workpiece and guarantees an exactly reproducible surface quality.
https://www.ferrobotics.com/en/technology-products/produkte/aok/



High-Productivity Membrane Chromatography to Enable Next-Generation Purification of Monoclonal Antibodies
December 6, 2019

New, innovative membrane chromatography technology enables a new paradigm for mAb manufacturing, offering key benefits to address productivity and cost challenges:

Critical quality attributes are comparable to reference resin processes
Improved productivity enables smaller columns and facilities
Novel Protein A membrane enables fully single-use mAb manufacturing
Potential affinity membranes for other applications enables process intensification
Fully single-use processes enable flexible, low-cost facilities and promote better facility utilization
Note: Content originally published in European Biopharmaceutical Review.

https://www.pharmasalmanac.com/articles/high-productivity-membrane-chromatography-to-enable-next-generation-purification-of-monoclonal-antibodies

Achieve 10x Greater Productivity                                                                               
The WuXiUP process platform is a key breakthrough in biologics continuous manufacturing. A single 1,000 L disposable bioreactor can produce more than 30 kg of mAb per batch while delivering similar purification yields as compared to traditional purification processes. Using the WuXiUP platform, approximately 500 kg of mAb therapeutics could be produced per year providing similar productivity as traditional 10,000-20,000 L stainless steel bioreactors.
https://www.wuxibiologics.com/services-solutions/wuxiup-continuous-biomanufacturing-platform-ultra-high-productivity/


2018


2018

AdvancedAce®-300 is a KOKUSAI ELECTRIC’s latest platform for batch thermal processing of 300mm wafers.
The AA-300 offers high throughput by utilizing advanced technologies in such areas as temperature control, wafer handling automation, reactor purging.
Achieved high productivity: Improved 1.5times(*) larger lot processing in a time (* Compared with previous model)
https://www.kokusai-electric.com/en/products/batch_process/advanced_ace/

Special High Productivity Processes - Listed by L.D. Miles in 1961 book

Powder-metal process

Cold shaping

Hot extruded shaping

Drawing small parts on eyelet machines

Ultrasonic or fluxless soldering

Metal automatic spinning

Chemical etched stamping

Multiside stamping

Small lot staming

Squirt stamping

Metal stiching

Swaging bar

Thread rolling

Cold welding

Tip welding

Swaging for Tubular Terminals
Tool for Wire-wrap

Updated on 17 May 2020
Published on 16 May 2020