Determining Cure Time of Rubber-Covered Mining Conveyor Belts using Multiresponse Surface Methodology

摘要

Quality and productivity are two critical strategic operations competitive factors in modern manufacturing industry. A change in product quality standard specifications initiates related changes in the product manufacturing process design to ensure continued satisfaction of customer expectations. The specifications of the general-purpose rubber covered conveyor belt regional standard changed and customers had specific expectations they demanded on the quality of the product. Multi response surface methodology is used to determine the optimum cure times of rubber covered conveyor belts at the vulcanisation stage to ensure the product quality and process productivity requirements are met.