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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Raw material costs"”.
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Activity-based product costing in a hardwood sawmill through the use of discrete-event simulation
… technique of calculating hardwood lumber product costs is based upon traditional cost accounting, where manufacturing costs are allocated to the products based upon the volume of each product that is produced. With the traditional cost accounting procedure, the variation in the resources used to …
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Raw Material Optimization to Bend the Biopharmaceutical Cost Curve
Raw materials sourced from sole third-party suppliers have been identified as one of the key risks to Amgen’s operation. This project aims to reduce raw material costs through sourcing alternative materials and optimizing material consumption. To systematically evaluate alternative material supply, …
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Lean – BPM Integrated model to improve productivity in SMEs in the aquaculture sector: a research in Perú
… insufficient production capacity, and high raw material costs. Faced with these problems, it has been chosen to provide a production management model through Lean-BPM that facilitates the control of processes, inventories, production plans, and cleaning; so that finally the productivity of …
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Tubular hydroforming of advanced steel and aluminum alloys : an economic evaluation using technical cost modeling
… economics of hydroforming three representative materials - mild steel, dual phase 600 steel and aluminum 5754 - using technical cost modeling. Costs are analyzed for the entire hyclroforming value stream, from coiled metal sheets to hydrofonned components, for both geometrically equivalent and …
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Improving the Metrological Traceability of Online Dry Grammage Measurement Used in the Paper Industry
In the paper industry, the automatic control of raw material consumption and product quality relies upon online grammage (total mass per unit product area) and moisture measurement. The optimisation of raw material consumption is vital to the profitability of production, and the even quality is …
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Potential commercialization of a collagen-GAG scaffold for liver regeneration
… incorporating equipment, labor, FDA, and raw material costs. This model was combined with information regarding the cost of current liver transplant procedures to create a profitable business plan based on the collagen-GAG scaffolds. A manufacturing and product sales business model was …
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Optimization of Throughput in Sheet Metal Manufacturing by Tuning the Sheet Metal Nesting Strategy Based on Sheet Utilization and Downstream Part Handling Costs
… Nesting a given set of sheet metal blanks onto raw material sheets is a major cost driver as it determines the amount of usable metal and the rest of the sheet is thrown away as scrap. Nesting algorithms are very effective at identifying the most efficient layout of a given set of parts to …
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Adoption of Bamboo in Ghana's Forest Products Industry: An Investigation of the Principal Exporters and Institutions
… the feasibility of introducing bamboo as a raw material to supplement the dwindling stock of traditional timber species for Ghana's forest products industry. First, the CEOs of the leading exporters of tertiary and panel products in the industry were canvassed to assess the current …
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Activated Carbon Injection for Mercury Control in Coal-Fired Boilers
… the project to be economically unattractive. The raw matenals made up 62% of the total product cost. The product cost was fairly insensitive to deviations of all factors except the costs of indole and base carbon. Significant reduction of the production cost must come through the lowering of raw …
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Investigation of mechanical properties of recycled polypropylene
… moulding, etc The recycling of waste plastic materials 1s developing at a manufacturing process scale, and rts arm is to increase further the sales o f plastrc products by reducing raw material costs However thrs economic argtunent rs only one of the reasons why it is important to recycle …
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Predicting Pallet Part Yields From Hardwood Cants
… directly impacts pallet part processing and material costs. By knowing the quality of the cants being processed, pallet manufacturers can predict costs to attain better value from their raw materials and more accurately price their pallets. The study objectives were 1) to develop a procedure …
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The effect of materials handling methods on unit costs in synthetic resin manufacturing
… of the research is to examine the use of bulk materials handling methods, and the effects that the new methods have on the manufacturing cost of manufacturing synthetic resins used for surface coatings.<br/><br/>Section 1 explores the background to the research and quantifies and identifies the …
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Effect of Sustainable and Composite Materials on the Mechanical Behavior of Sandwich Panels Under Edgewise Compressive Loading
… due to the lightweight properties of composite materials. Some benefits of composites include higher strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance. At this point in time, the composite industry researchers are focusing on renewable and sustainable materials (bio-composites). By understanding …
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Methodological study on technology integration for sustainable manufacturing in the surface finishing industry
… by industrial globalization, high energy and raw material costs, increased environmental regulations and social pressures, and new technological innovations. In order for an industrial process to become sustainable, it is essential to improve the process inputs efficiency from raw materials …
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Manufacturing bio-bricks using microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation and human urine
The production of building materials is a significant contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions with conventional kiln brick production being one of the most energy intensive processes. In addition, phosphorus is a resource that is required by all living organisms and is a key …