Fencing Improvement At Palm Oil Mill To Reduce Costly Waste

Mohd Khairul Al'fat'hah , Izman (2013) Fencing Improvement At Palm Oil Mill To Reduce Costly Waste. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project study presented a fencing improvement at palm oil mill to reduce costly waste. Typically, fencing material called expanded metal made of mild steel comes to failure in service. The failure contributes great unnecessary expenditure on process station maintenance. The failure of fencing also contribute to waste such as time waste, energy waste, transportation waste, waiting waste, product defect waste, etc. The failure also affects the quality of Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) end product. Lean manufacturing tool such as kaizen is the best approach to solve issue related with waste. Kaizen approach is used with the aid of material failure analysis to identify the root cause of expanded metal failure and undergo some analysis. For that matter, the sample taken from fencing has undergo sample preparation and cleaning procedure, follow up by mechanically test, chemical test, and micro and macro examination. The behavior, characteristic of sample also has been identified. Testing analysis was compiled and the type of failure is justified. Regarding on the overall result, the replacement of material was chosen to be the proposed kaizen implementation. Cambridge Education Selector (CES) software was used to aid the material selection process to find the best material to replace current material. The criteria of properties, behavior and characteristic from testing procedure were access into the CES software and took into consideration in material selection procedure.

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