Anna Saniuk

The Maintenance Management in the Macro-Ergonomics Context

The future factory empowers managers with new capabilities and enables the realization of sophisticated approaches based on the collaboration of devices, network services within the single enterprise and among enterprises. This is a key issue especially for the maintenance. Technical systems are no longer passive, but became active entities that can do self-monitoring, proactively inform third party services about their status or maintenance needs and therefore greatly enhance existing efforts for remote and autonomous maintenance. Influence of the Industry 4.0 approach on working mode is nowadays the issue widely discussed. Does it lead to the insensate production where there is no place for human factor?

Rapid Prototyping of Constraint-Based Production Flows in Outsourcing

In this publication a problem of production order planning is considered. The concept of a critical resource and a critical process, a constraint-based approach has been proposed. The question considered regards of an admissible production flow organization-guaranteeing completion of the production order under assumed limits, while taking into account the logistics constraints imposed. In that context the approach proposed can be seen as one following the Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC).

Human Factor in Sustainable Manufacturing

This article describes sustainable manufacturing (a part of a sustainable development concept) and the role of human factor/ergonomics (HFE) in achieving it. This includes consideration of relevant human factor issues in advancing manufacturing operations and processes from the point of view of product life cycle phases.

Human-Computer Interaction in Sanitary Inspection Simulation Exercises

The paper describes the human-computer interaction principles for each of the teams participating in computer-aided simulation exercises for the State Sanitary Inspection. The exercises relate to activities undertaken during the crisis connected with a large outbreak of food poisoning or food-borne disease. The GUI design and ergonomics for the Training Audience as well as the Exercise Planning Team, the Exercise Control, the Exercise Director and the Evaluation and Analysis Team were considered to immerse the training audience in an as much as realistic environment.

Business process analysis of a foodborne outbreak investigation mobile system

Epidemiological investigation during an outbreak of food-borne disease requires taking a number of activities carried out in the field. This results in a restriction of access to current data about the epidemic and reducing the possibility of transferring information from the field to headquarters. This problem can be solved by using an appropriate system of mobile devices. The purpose of this paper is to present the IT solution based on the central repository for epidemiological investigations and mobile devices designed for use in the field. Based on such a solution business processes can be properly rebuild in a way to achieve better results in the activities of health inspectors.

Efficiency Control in Industrial Enterprises

The global crisis has resulted in a strong need to change the enterprise philosophy. It is observed the importance of a well-thought strategy as a key prerequisite for contemporary enterprise business success. It should include a very good idea which helps to gain a competitive advantage in the market in the future, and also it has to be implemented very quickly. Therefore, efficiency control plays a significant role in industry enterprises. In this paper the new method of efficiency control dedicated for industrial enterprises which have make-to-order manufacturing (MTO) is presented. MTO companies produce bespoke and customized products to particular customer specifications but not repeated on a regular basis. The main goal of this paper is to connect the strategy implementation process with the production order acceptance process, which can increase the efficiency of strategy realization in make-to-order manufacturing.

Clothing Distribution Optimization for Rental Company Warehouse

This work considers the problem of choosing the right strategy for clothes distribution in a rental company warehouse. The basic criterion for the clothing arrangement assessment is, among others, optimization of employees’ working time, and thus ergonomics. It is assumed that the incoming orders stream is known.

Decision Support System for Rapid Production Order Planning in Production Network

Today the functioning of small and medium enterprises in production networks gives many opportunities for businesses, but also raises some concern and requires solutions to many problems. The process of forming the network of enterprises is dependent on the degree of preparation of these companies to share their resources, the possibility of estimating the related costs and the rapid planning jointly implemented projects. The aim of the article is to present a prototype decision support system for rapid production order planning in production network. The proposed tool can be helpful in the development of the concept of Industry 4.0. In particular, the article is presented the way the selection of partners to the network and load the productive resources to the needs of the timely implementation of the new order. The proposed approach and its computer implementation allow the permissible variations of network in condition of cost, resource and logistics system constraints to be determined.

How to Make Maintenance Processes More Efficient Using Lean Tools

This paper discusses the combined issues of lean thinking and maintenance in particular performance indicators to identify the impact of lean thinking within maintenance. Specific attention focuses on the contribution of lean thinking within an organization, the need for maintenance to align itself with the business objectives of the organization, and the need for performance measures to inform of improvement within the organization, and maintenance in particular, through lean tools and activities.

Make-to-order manufacturing - new approach to management of manufacturing processes

Strategic management must now be closely linked to the management at the operational level, because only in such a situation the company can be flexible and can quickly respond to emerging opportunities and pursue ever-changing strategic objectives. In these conditions industrial enterprises seek constantly new methods, tools and solutions which help to achieve competitive advantage. They are beginning to pay more attention to cost management, economic effectiveness and performance of business processes. In the article characteristics of make-to-order systems (MTO) and needs associated with managing such systems is identified based on the literature analysis. The main aim of this article is to present the results of research related to the development of a new solution dedicated to small and medium enterprises manufacture products solely on the basis of production orders (make-to- order systems). A set of indicators to enable continuous monitoring and control of key strategic areas this type of company is proposed. A presented solution includes the main assumptions of the following concepts: the Performance Management (PM), the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and a combination of strategic management with the implementation of operational management. The main benefits of proposed solution are to increase effectiveness of MTO manufacturing company management.