Armenia Wine Factory Case Study

Abstract

The goal of this Master thesis is to provide a smooth running production, decrease downtimes and shutdowns and maximize capacity utilization through preventive maintenance plan in Armenia wine factory.

Chapter 1
1.1 Introduction
Nowadays world is very different from ancient times. Myriad changes and innovations have been made during the years. Those changes were revolutionary for the particular periods of time and have a great impact on humans’ life. One of the most important periods was the Industrial Revolution when the machinery industry was born. It was the first step of automation of work which led to faster production process. Today it is hard to imagine a company that doesn’t use machinery. But does the presence of
Then the clean bottles are put on the conveyor which goes towards the rinsing equipment. The capacity of this machine is 16 bottles. In the case of wine bottles sulfur used for rinsing them. After being rinsed the bottle is continuing its route and due to special equipment it is free from air and filled with CO2. All this process can be seen visually. Going forward the bottle is entering to the filler, where the liquid is poured to it. Passing the filler the bottle is directed to the cork orienting machine, where the corks are being oriented and put on the bottle. After this stage the bottle is being washed and dried from outside in the appropriate machine. The next stage is capsuling machine (Fimer MM11). There are 2 types of caps: aluminum and heat- resistant. Thus there is a separate direction for each of them. Also there is another machine which is for fruit vodka capsuling. Passing this stage the bottle is entering to the labeling machine (Gavagni and GATTI). Then the workers put excise by hand and check the quality after which bottles are being packed in SIAT machine. There is also one machine- Bargin Box, which is intended for packaging wine in foil
Today firms understand that it is more efficient and less costly to use preventive maintenance but according to studies winter of 2000 in United States more than 55% of maintenance resources and activities are corrective and only 31% preventive.
Providing maintenance of equipment is one of the most important tasks of companies. In order not to have breakdowns which will cause the delays of production and hence will add costs, companies should pay attention on maintenance and for this purpose maintenance schedules are created. But there are some factors due to which this schedules are deviating.
Some authors talk about 2 types of jobs orders
 Emergency , which should be done in a short period
 Non-emergency, which can be delayed
The problem is arising as paying attention on emergency job orders companies move back in the schedule non-emergency orders so they are not meeting their predicted deadlines.
As a result lots of pending job orders is being accumulated in the system which is much more than the available capacity and it will cause backlogs which in its turn will disrupt