Analysis and dynamic modeling of intermediate distributors for balancing of production lines

The work carried out at the company Pulsar Engineering s.r.l, and discussed in this thesis, focuses on the construction of a model for the dynamic simulation of the operations of a machine that allows feeding and sorting/merging in the tissue sector called REDS INTERMEDIATE. The goal is to derive a powerful dynamic model that can simulate a large range of REDS intermediate that could work in different existing operating modes (DIVERTER, COMBINER and By-pass modes) and containing all existing operating strategies (REVOLVER and TETRIS strategies). This was possible with the aid of a powerful simulation tool called PLS DYNAMIC/ TISSUEPLS DYNAMIC. It is important to emphasize that we will deal with a simplified production line since we are interested in just getting the REDS INTERMEDIATE model. This model can be used to: - Obtain a real estimate of the parameters necessary for the design of a production line. - See the behaviour of the PULSAR line in a 2D and 3D interface proposed by the software. The following discussion reports the study in question presenting some result, starting from a general description of the production lines, and a static analysis of the REDS INTERMEDIATE.