Advanced 300-mm ASIC/SOC (application-specific integrated circuit/system on a chip) fabrication plants with multiproduct and multiprocess models will require both a high level of flexibility and efficiency to achieve cost-effective manufacturing cycle times. Today, potential solutions to achieve breakthrough manufacturing cycle times are under consideration. Given the dynamic nature of all of t...

It can be difficult estimating all of the cost components that are attributed to a machined part. This problem is more pronounced when a factory uses group technology manufacturing cells as opposed to a functional or process layout of a job shop. This paper describes how activity-based costing (ABC) concepts can be integrated into a discreteevent simulation model of a U-shaped manufacturing cel...

In this paper we present the first part of a project of flexible manufacturing process optimisation in a Slovenian furniture company. In this part we analysed the current state of the manufacturing system by constructing a discrete event simulation model that reflects the manufacturing processes. As the manufacturing process involves about 30,000 subprocesses it is not feasible to manually cons...

This research will analyze and discuss the inner behavior of a flexible manufacturing cell in order to buildup its object-oriented simulation system. An object-oriented Petri Net will be built to model a flexible manufacturing cell. The objects of the object-oriented Petri Net are directly mapped from physical objects of a flexible manufacturing cell. This cell includes a robot, several machine...

Many real-world manufacturing problems are too complex to be modelled analytically. In these scenarios simulation-based optimisation is a powerful tool to determine optimal system settings. While traditional optimisation methods have been unable to cope with the complexities of many real-world problems approached by simulation, soft computing techniques have proven to be highly useful. This pap...

As usage of simulation analyses becomes steadily more important in the design, operation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing systems (and historically, manufacturing was the sector of the economy first eagerly embracing simulation technology), the incentive to construct generic simulation models amenable to repeated application increases. Such generic models not only make individual si...

Simulation is a powerful tool to analyse manufacturing systems for purposes of design and on-going operation. Nowadays, simulation modelling and analysis is confronted to increasing evolution of companies towards distributed process control. Thus, simulation modelling must be supported by an underlying modelling discipline, or structured approach to modelling factory operations. Our study focus...

This paper deals with the use of computer simulation with the aim of achieving more efficient production in manufacturing and production systems. In our case, the possibilities of such use are demonstrated on particular examples from industrial practice. Some simulation studies are presented. The aim of these studies is to suggest and simulate experiments designed to increase productivity and t...

Cloud manufacturing (CM) is an open and service-oriented platform that virtualizes distributed design, manufacturing, and assembling resources together in order to provide a seamless, stable, and high quality transaction of manufacturing procedures. Despite the rich results in resource discovery and matching, the research in robustness and security of the systems falls behind in many aspects. T...