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¹Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Traugutta 79, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland.

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This study introduces two novel reliability concepts for manufacturing systems, focusing on small-scale bakeries. Robotization significantly enhances system reliability and operational efficiency in bread production.

Keywords:

Analysis of relations streams Bread baking Manufacturing process reliability Quality

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Manufacturing Systems Analysis

Background:

Manufacturing systems require robust reliability metrics for operational efficiency.
Small-scale bakeries face unique challenges in maintaining consistent production reliability.
Existing reliability models may not fully capture the complexities of integrated manufacturing streams.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce two innovative concepts for assessing the reliability of functioning manufacturing systems.
To develop a new scalar value, Pss, representing global reliability as a product of system stream reliability.
To analyze the impact of robotization on manufacturing process reliability in small-scale bakeries.

Main Methods:

Development of two reliability representations: global reliability P g (t) and systemic stream reliability Pss.
Analysis of system streams including energy, matter, information, time, and finances.
Defining and quantifying important (reliability=1) and supportive (reliability 0-1) relations between stream elements.
Application of the Pss concept to a small-scale bakery for efficiency analysis.

Main Results:

Identified a significant increase in reliability when transitioning from traditional to robotized bakeries.
Demonstrated that Pss, a scalar value, characterizes the failure-free operation of a whole system.
The Pss formula provides a method for process optimization by increasing important relations between input stream components.

Conclusions:

The systemic-stream reliability concept (Pss) offers a quantifiable method for analyzing and optimizing any technological or manufacturing process.
Robotization in small-scale bakeries leads to substantial improvements in bread production reliability.
The developed reliability concepts are applicable beyond bakeries to diverse manufacturing environments.