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Ankara Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, vol.57, no.3, pp.179-183, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
The aim of the research is to designate the possible measures, which are directed to increase slaughtering line efficiency, by specifying the relationships between the gender, the weight of carcass, fatty or non-fatty cut, the time of the cut and the carcass production of the cattle that have been cut in a slaughterhouse in Turkey. The materials of the research have been obtained from a slaughterhouse which has a capacity of 150 cattle/day and 1500 sheep/day, by the cutting of 49 cattle 25 of which were female and the remaining 24 were males. The data was analyzed by the using Kolmogorov-Smirnov, ANOVA, The Independent Samples-T and Pearson Correlation tests. The total cutting line operations of 49 cattle, the total cutting line process, the waiting time of each cattle in the line and the total process in the slaughterhouse were determined as 3006.1, 1750.1 and 1256.0 seconds respectively. For the cutting periods of morning and midday, the difference between the times of process was found significant (p<0.01). Moreover, the relationship between the weights of carcass which were evaluated of this research and the total process period was examined and a significant positive correlation with the coefficient (r=0.319) was found (p<0.05). In the process of total cutting line, the share of waiting time in the slaughtering line is 58.2%. Consequently, the presence of obsolescent technology usage and inappropriate and non-ergonomic cutting line design and construction in the slaughterhouse caused to increase of inefficient time and expend more effort by work force. In this context, it is thought that studies of improving the technology level and line constructions in slaughterhouses in Turkey which can be contributed to increase in labour productivity and shortening the time of production processes.