Lean Production is used by many manufacturing companies. Companies in process industries do not use Lean Production to the same extent today. This is part of the report's issue to explore how Lean Production can be applied to a company in the process industries.The investigated company is a processing company that manufactures various types of foil. The company wishes to streamline its Production and has therefore asked the authors to examine if Lean Production can offer the company improvements in their Production. Lean Production value stream mapping tool has been selected to identify and analyze the current state of two of its products in Production.

The aim of this thesis is benchmarking of the program, based on dynamic programming, that earlier was written to imitate the Production planning at TSS.This thesis starts with a chapter about the construction of the DP-program, a shorter description of one and each of the program parts and also a list over the in- and output data in each program part. The DP-program consists of six linked MATLAB-files that together produce an optimized Production plan for the different planning groups at TSS. The program reads in and reformat the given data and optimize the Production of the articles in one group. Finally it compounds all article Production plans and give us a Production alternative.After running the program with new data the result shows, resembling with previous results, that TSS could be able to make some distinct cost-savings. According to the program, a 50 % decrease of TSS Production costs is possible. .

This report contains results of our study at CTC in Ljungby. CTC produces heating products such as boilers, heat pumps and additional products to their heating systems.The purpose of the report is to make a proposal how CTC will supply their new Production line for heat pumps with materials. The proposal includes a Production layout and a scheme for how to place the material in the Production storage.The new Production line will produce two different products and both of them have several variants. The line will also have a mixed flow, so the products can be produced in a random order. These conditions demand that the Production line has great flexibility and that the material to all the variants can be stored in the Production storage.With these conditions as input we made a layout proposal to the company.

The producers of grain in Sweden are facing a rough future. The competition is getting harder all the time, in Sweden, in EU and also from the ?world market?. The producers have to be more efficient and have to have bigger units. Many producers might have to look for new alternative Production opportunities.

To value the risk and opportunity for our Production in Sweden it is necessary to understand the marketing development for beef cattle Production in the world. We have chosen to look at the Brazil beef cattle Production. They are one of the biggest producers, have good opportunity to develop further and have a big affect at the world market. The method of our work is to gather information from experts of beef cattle Production, located in Brazil. We have also gathered information through studies of literature. The factors that will have a big influence at the Brazil beef cattle Production during the upcoming years is more efficient land use, lower age of slaughtering and extended use of feedlot-system. Our conclusion is that the Brazil beef cattle will have a sharp increase during the next five years. The amount of pasture will not change during that time.

Göteborg Energi has a surplus of district heating during spring, summer and fall. The heat surplus is due to a constant Production of waste heat from oil refineries and heat from waste incineration over the year. It would be desirable to increase the demand for heat and the uptime for the newly built combined heat and power generation plant, Rya Kraftvärmeverk. One alternative could be to integrate Rya Kraftvärmeverk with a pellet Production facility. By producing heat, electricity and pellet in a joint process the energy use can be decreased.

This report that is written in cooperation with Peab Sverige AB, studies the information and knowledge management from the Production support to the Production management. The conclusion of this report is that to have a good and functional information and knowledge management it is necessary that the company has a good way of regain and handling experiences from its projects. The way to do this is to develop the managing system on the Production management?s terms. It is also critical to find an easy way for the Production management to use the system..

A large part of the time losses in Production in modern manufacturing industry are a cause of unplanned interruptions in Production. In this essay we have studied the effects of an unplanned interruption in Production. The study was performed during one month on a press Production line at Volvo Cars Body Components (VCBC) in Olofström. The effects of the interruptions have been studied on the basis of two perspectives of the environment of the Production. The study started at the level of automation and was mainly done as a survey of the unplanned interruptions in Production.

ABB Capacitors is looking to introduce LEAN within their organization. The purpose of this research is to suggest ways to improve the Production planning in order to facilitate the company?s Production processes. This should be done in accordance with the LEAN concept.Today, ABB will produce two of the customers? orders at the same time.

The purpose of this study is to investigate how much of the estimated annual electric energy Production from Swedish wind power that actually was produced, as well as the history of this agreement over time. The aim is to also examine if there are properties that have caused some group of wind power plants to produce more or less, compared to their estimated Production. Operational data on wind turbines collected by the Swedish Energy Agency was analyzed. A survey was made among owners of wind power plants with a nominal power of at least 2 MW. Two different methods for normal year correction of Production data were used and compared.

The report is about efficiency of a current Production group where there is no clear Production flow and there are some buffers between the operations. The efficiency is done with the help of a tool that is calledWork process of flow Production which is used by Atlas Copco CTO. The most obviously results are that the lead time drops from 25 hours to 425 minutes and that the balancing loss decreases from 85 % to 8 %. The report focus on decreasing transports, decreasing buffers, more reliability in lead time and quality. And a more stimulating labour content for the workers is another result..

During the last years commercial Wind Power Turbines (WPT) has become larger regardingto the generator sizes and hub heights. Available hub heights around 100 meters is nowcommon, which has led to profitability for WPT located in forests where there normally are tolow wind speeds. The current knowledgement regarding turbulence and the variation in thewind profile for the outcome of the power Production for the WPT in forests is limited.In this Master of Science thesis an investigation concerning forest located wind power plantshas been made. The purpose has been to investigate if plants located in forest perform lesscompared to wind power turbines located at more common locations.The analyses are based on statically material for determining the availability,Production/generator size, Production/hub height, Production/swept area and how thetopography affect the Production results.The analyses show that the variation in Production result for WPT located in forest comparedto turbines located at other locations is small. The availability is high and the Productionresults are good..

This essay is an enquiry about how companies as participated in a Lean pro¬duction education use this education. The essay describes also how one works with the implementation of Lean Production and how they believe that they will work. The enquiry tries to create an advisory material for other companies that are in the beginning of implementing their own Lean Production systems. There these companies? gets a picture of how other companies have done during their try to create a functioning Lean Production system.

This survey deals with textile Production and how it was carried out during the late Iron Age,with main focus on a central place, Uppåkra. A comparison has been carried out betweenUppåkra and two agrarian settlements, Fosie and V. Karaby, from the nearby landscape toinvestigate whether any variation in Production can be detected. The value of textiles has alsobeen investigated to determine whether a potential specialization in Production may have ledto a surplus.An analytical and comparative method has been used with focus on the context of thematerial.The results show that the textile Production vary at the different sites, and that a need fordifferent types of textiles has existed. At Uppåkra, the possibility to produce fine threads andtextiles existed as demonstated by the findings of small and lightweighted spindle whorls.This suggests that the Production may have included both fine and coarse textiles.

This study is done together with Sydved AB in the summer of 2012. The purpose of the study is to analyse how different quantity of assortments influence the Production for forwarders and harvesters with multiple tree handling aggregate in thinning, by different tree volumes. To make this analyse a time study was performed where three entrepreneurs work has been analysed. Beside the analyse, of different quantity of assortments, has also been analysed how the tree volume and a forest fuel assortment effect the Production. The result of this study shows that the quantities of assortments have a significant meaning for the Production. The biggest differences are most distinct between one and three assortments in the smaller tree volumes where Production goes down if the quantity of assortments increase.