Title :
Simulation Study on Lens Manufacturing Process Flow
Author :
Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy ; Wong, Kuan Yew
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manuf. & Ind. Eng., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai
Abstract :
The general question addressed by this work is how best productivity can be enhanced in the process flow of a lens manufacturing company without incurring any major extra cost. Process analysis has been conducted in the process flow of the firm in order to identify improvement prone areas and improvement alternative solutions were proposed. The application of discrete event simulation using WITNESS software has been employed in the evaluation of the production improvement solutions in order to identify which alternative solution yields the highest productivity. Generic performance measures and specific organizational performance measures has been investigated to provide subtle insights into the perceived benefits of adopting alternative manufacturing process structures in the process flow using simulation.
Keywords :
discrete event simulation; lenses; manufacturing processes; production engineering computing; WITNESS software; discrete event simulation; lens manufacturing company; lens manufacturing process flow; Application software; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Fluid flow measurement; Lenses; Manufacturing processes; Mathematical model; Production; Productivity; Virtual manufacturing; Discrete event simulation; Performance measures.; Process flow; Productivity; assembly line;
Conference_Titel :
Modeling & Simulation, 2008. AICMS 08. Second Asia International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3136-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3136-6
DOI :
10.1109/AMS.2008.119
