DocumentCode :
286488
Title :
Generic simulation
Author :
Cather, H.L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. & Manufact. Eng., Brighton Univ., UK
fYear :
1993
fDate :
34144
Firstpage :
42370
Lastpage :
110
Abstract :
There is considerable pressure on British manufacturing organisations to improve on their company´s order winning criteria in a highly competitive, world-wide market. This leads to demands being made which often conflict with each other. A common problem facing management is how to determine the effect of different manufacturing layouts and philosophies on criteria such as resource utilisation, lead-times and work-in-progress. Computer based simulation packages appear to offer a way to dynamically analyse many complex problems in manufacturing but they are used infrequently due to a lack of personnel skilled in their language and construction. This paper presents an animated generic model produced using SIMAN and MENUGEN suites which can be used by the manufacturing team. This program allows them, without re-programming, to see the effect of differences in variables such as product mix layouts, batch sizes, available resources and improvements in processing and quality
Keywords :
digital simulation; manufacturing data processing; MENUGEN; SIMAN; animated generic model; available resources; batch sizes; generic simulation; lead-times; management; manufacturing layouts; manufacturing philosophies; product mix; resource utilisation; simulation packages; work-in-progress;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
iet
Conference_Titel :
Increased Production Through Discrete Event Simulation, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
Type :
conf
Filename :
247521
Link To Document :
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