Abstract
This paper aims to provide a thorough analysis on the application of TRIZ in improving the quality of canned food production. TRIZ tools such as engineering systems analysis, function analysis, cause and effect chain analysis, By-separation model and 40 Inventive Principles are applied in order to discover some feasible and elegant solutions to alleviate the problem. Findings revealed that the rejected canned products on the conveyor belt will be isolated or picked up with other good condition canned products which are lined up very closely to the rejected cans; though the visioning system is able detect the fault printing on the canned product. The main root cause is that the rejected canned product is picked up with other canned products in good condition because all cans are lined up on the belt and are very close to each other or having no gaps between the cans. Conversely, all cans on the conveyor belts are required to be very close to each other to avoid collisions that may damage the cans. The root cause is solved by applying function analysis, By-separation tool and Inventive Principles. Therefore, it can be concluded that TRIZ is a powerful tool in inventive problem solving.
Highlights
Production lines comprise of a set of sequential processes whereby materials are out through a refining operation to produce an end-product that is suitable for consumer market; or components that are assembled to make finished product [1]
Direct observation revealed that the rejected canned products on the conveyor belt will be picked up with other good condition canned products which are lined up very closely to the rejected cans; though the visioning system is able detect the fault printing on the canned product
The ever improving technology in production line should be able to handle any sizes of products in a speedy, reliable, and cheaper cost [3,4]
Summary
Production lines comprise of a set of sequential processes whereby materials are out through a refining operation to produce an end-product that is suitable for consumer market; or components that are assembled to make finished product [1]. It includes inspecting, labeling, and packing the final product before the product is released.[2] Equipments, materials and human resources influence the reliability and capacity of the production operation. TRIZ methodology was founded in 1940’s by Genrich Altshuller and his team He was an inventor, a writer and a patent engineer who studied intellectual property contained in approximately 200,000 patents [6]. TRIZ uses 40 inventive principles and 39 parameters to help inventors to derive many solutions [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]
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