Title :
A comparison of modelling paradigms for manufacturing line
Author :
De Souza, Robert ; Huynh, Richard ; Chandrashekar, Muthu ; Thevenard, Didier
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. & Production Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
The paper presents different approaches to simulation of a manufacturing line, namely the discrete event, system dynamics and graph theoretic approach. The modelling approaches are applicable to manufacturing as well as other systems. A software package called PROSIM has been developed at the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada for continuous system simulation. In this paper, we compare PROSIM with two other commercially available software packages, ARENA and ITHINK, using an example of a manufacturing line. The results obtained are in excellent agreement. The software packages and actual line are used as a research and teaching resource in the Design Research Centre at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Keywords :
digital simulation; discrete event simulation; graph theory; production control; production engineering computing; software packages; ARENA; ITHINK; PROSIM; continuous system simulation; discrete-event approach; graph theoretic approach; manufacturing line; modelling paradigms; simulation; software package; system dynamics approach; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Continuous time systems; Electronics packaging; Manufacturing systems; Production engineering; Pulp manufacturing; Software packages; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3280-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1996.571288
