Mario Gabriele Miranda ¹, S. Ramachandran ¹

Affiliations
1 Bharath School of Business, Bharath University, Chennai, IN

Abstract

The concept of supply chain management is becoming a more strategic than a transactional methodology in nature. The need for incorporating a more integrated perspective of how products and processes have to go in hand with the strategic decisions to enhance competitive advantage has been amplified. The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of how this alignment should be done.

After having a thorough review and synthesizing the important findings from existing literature, an integrated framework is derived that highlights how products should be best matched with their production and logistics processes.

Keywords

Agile Production, Lean Production, Operation Management, Supply Chain Management

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Mario Gabriele Miranda ¹, S. Ramachandran ¹

Affiliations
1 Bharath School of Business, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

India being the world's largest producer of dairy products by volume, accounting for holds about 13% of world's total milk production and also accounts the world's largest dairy herd1. India being a country that consumes its own milk production. India is neither considered an active importer or an exporter of dairy products. However, bringing in the rules of Operation Flood Programme, the situation changed significantly and imports have reduced to a very small quantities. The year 2001, has brought India to be a key player in net exporting of dairy products and after the year 2003 India's import of dairy products has dipped while exports have increased at a fast rate. Yet the country provides a share in global market still remains at small rates of 0.3 and 0.4 percent for exports and imports respectively. This is because of people who directly consumption of liquid milk by the producer households. This also increases the demand for processed dairy products that has increased with the growth of income levels, which have left little dairy surpluses for export. Although, India with more consumers we exports special products like casein for food processing or pharmaceuticals. The Indian dairy sector is also different from other dairy producing countries as India places its importance on both cattle and buffalo milk.

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R. Devaraj ¹, S. Ramachandran ¹, G. Mageshwaran ¹, K. Gobinath ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sathyabama University, Chennai – 600119, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Objective: The stability of supporting structure is designed for the hybrid solar collector that supports the parabolic collector and its accessories using finite element based simulation technique. Methodology: A supporting structure for supporting solar collector was designed and the simulation was carried out using ANSYS 15 tetrahedrons mesh control and the analysis is quite involved since loading is dynamic in nature due to the continuous movement of the tracking system. Throughout the design, the factor of safety is strictly restricted as 1 to avoid heavier structure and also to limit the structure cost. As a design improvement vertical and inclined cross members are attached to the ground support to withstand vibration. Findings: It is found that the vibration damping is good when the aperture is kept larger than the length of the collector. Improvements: The designed system can carry a load up to 800 kg. Therefore, the same structure can be used for an automatic tracking system.

Keywords

Collector Structure, Ground Support Structure, Hybrid Solar Collector, Simulation, Structural Analysis.

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