Henwil Chickens process analysis: the impact of a carton freezer on the production capacity of the abattoir

dc.contributor.advisorAdetunji, Olufemi
dc.contributor.authorVan Rensburg, Brett
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-30T13:48:22Z
dc.date.available2013-04-30T13:48:22Z
dc.date.created2012
dc.date.issued2013-04-30
dc.descriptionThesis (B Eng. (Industrial and Systems Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2012.en_US
dc.description.abstractHenwil Chickens is a chicken abattoir in Lichtenburg Northwest province. The production line slaughters 60000 chickens per day in one 10-hour shift. Henwil wish to implement a second shift, which will run through the night and will allow them to double daily production. However the current production line at the abattoir is not capable of handling a second shift mainly due to a constraint in the blast freezing section. The current blast freezer configuration used at Henwil needs to run through the night in order to complete the freezing of products from the day’s production. For this reason Henwil have decided to install a carton freezer which is capable of freezing enough products to allow them to implement a second shift which will run through the night and ultimately double production. This study includes three major phases. The first phase was process mapping including all details of the process, data collection and topic research with reference to different simulation software packages. The second phase was composed of data analysis and simulation model construction representing the Henwil abattoir process in order to gain a holistic view of how the process runs and how it is affected by the proposed changes in the system. Finally the simulation model needed to be validated and findings documented including results and conclusions. The project seeks to advise Henwil on the impact that implementing a carton freezer will have on the current process and its resources and once it has been implemented how best to use the resources available to them in order to achieve optimum production from the line.en_US
dc.format.extent73 pagesen_US
dc.format.mediumPDFen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21420
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria. Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology. Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
dc.rightsCopyright: University of Pretoriaen_US
dc.subjectMini-dissertations (Industrial and Systems Engineering)en_US
dc.subjectProcess modellingen_US
dc.titleHenwil Chickens process analysis: the impact of a carton freezer on the production capacity of the abattoiren_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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