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Investigation And Improvement Of The Conveyor System At A Bottle Packaging Operation., Dirk Lee Fugate
Investigation And Improvement Of The Conveyor System At A Bottle Packaging Operation., Dirk Lee Fugate
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This investigation examines the bottle packaging conveyor system and its impact on the overall efficiency at a bottle packaging plant in Anderson, South Carolina. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the existing opportunity to reduce bottle unit cost, increase productivity, decrease the risk of work related injuries, and improve line reliability along with employee moral with the conveying system alone.
Data was gathered for this study in three ways: One, bottle packaging line lead operators were required to document the start and stop times of the conveyor system on their respective lines for six weeks. Two, a conveyor …