Entries in Food & Beverage (3)
Tuesday
Oct062009
Blending and Packaging Challenges
Unilever (Wish-bone and Lawry's)
Over the course of a long partnership with Unilever's in-house industrial engineers, NovaSim has developed multiple discrete event simulation models to help optimize production performance.
Project Objectives
- Determine whether the ingredient preparation system could keep up with increased production, while considering the handling of Kosher ingredients
- Create efficient production schedules to meet demand while minimizing losses due to changeovers and equipment availability contraints
- Manage dedicated equipment while simultaneously meeting all product demands
- Coordinate the batch production and the complex system of ingredient scales with fork lift delivery, pumps, mixers, and packaging lines
Materials HandingTuesday
Oct062009
Creamy or Crunchy?
Unilever (Skippy Peanut Butter)
The Skippy family of peanut butter includes six different products that are packaged in more than 50 different products for sale around the world. NovaSim worked with Unilever's industrial engineering team to develop a SIMUL8 discrete event simulaiton model that was used to optimize overall production performance for the Skippy brand.
Tuesday
Oct062009
Batch Production
Unilever (Best Foods Mayonnaise)
We have all seen recipes for mayonnaise. The ingredients are very simple: eggs, vegetable oil, maybe some lemon juice, vinegar, salt and pepper. If you set your mind to it, it would be a simple matter to make up a batch in your kitchen. But what if you needed to make more than 1 million pounds per day? NovaSim developed a discrete event simulation model in SIMUL8 to help Best Foods do just that.
