Performance Model for Manufacturing Facility Planning Based on System Configuration, Ram and Lcc

This paper focuses on developing performance model for manufacturing facility design considering systems configuration, RAM design and the system life cycle cost. For this study, we used a four-step approach. The major steps involved in this procedure are: 1) deal with initial system configurations to meet the required production rate, 2) develop system reliability, availability and maintainability, RAM model, 3) present a system life cycle costing model considering system configuration and system RAM, and 4) propose a simulation model to find the optimal system to meet the production requirement by considering system configuration, system RAM, and life cycle cost. Finally, we developed a computer program to facilitate computations for the proposed model and its test results have been presented based on computations using this software. The developed model can be used to analyze system performance evaluation for both design and operational phases. Furthermore, this research can be extended easily for various problems solving with a variety form of outputs.