To enable the fast transition to new product variants a modern production plant has to employ flexible manufacturing systems which can be adopted to new requirements. Modeling and simulation of such adopted configurations is of great help to identify possible system malfunctions already during the manufacturing system design. Therefore the required number of tests that runs with the final manuf...

Systems simulation modeling techniques offer a method of representing the individual elements of a manufacturing system and their interactions. By developing and experimenting with simulation models, one can obtain a better understanding of the overall physical system. Forest products industries are beginning to understand the importance of simulation modeling to help improve the dynamic perfor...

Simulation technology holds tremendous promise for reducing costs, improving quality, and shortening the time-to-market for manufactured goods. Unfortunately, this technology still remains largely underutilized by industry today. This paper suggests benefits to industry resulting from the widespread, pervasive implementation of manufacturing simulation technology. Potential simulation impact ar...

In the modern world class manufacturing it is of prime importance for modern management to make crucial decisions quickly and accurately to stand at the global competitive cutting edge. In many real life situations the main interest concern the prediction of how a system will perform under various conditions of change in the environment as well as with in the system. Experimenting on real syste...

The problem of production flow in the manufacturing line is analyzed. The machines can be operated by workers or by robots. Since breakdowns and human factors affect the destabilization of the production processes, robots are preferred to apply. The problem is how to determine the real difference in work efficiency between human and robot. Analysis of the production efficiency and reliability o...

This paper presents a concept of development of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) by using simulations. MES is one of manufacturing systems that are used to bridge the data between the gap of the bottom layer (such as the shop floor control) and the enterprise system layer (such as Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP). The paper focuses on the functions of MES which link the levels of operatio...

Emerging rapidly as a new paradigm of the 21st century, Mass Customization Manufacturing (MCM) systems possess some special characteristics that make the modeling of such systems extremely difficult. These characteristics include concurrency, synchronization, and cooperation among subsystems. Moreover, MCM emphasizes shortened product life-cycles, which means production lines have to be changed...

Semiconductor manufacturing is a highly complex and asset intensive process. Solutions are needed to automate control of equipment and improve efficiency. We describe a symbiotic simulation control system which uses reactive what-if analysis to find a stable configuration of a wet bench tool set. This control system is based on a generic framework for symbiotic simulation. We show that symbioti...

Mounting machine is the most critical equipment in the SMT (Surface Mounted Technology), the production efficiency of which affects the entire assembly line's productivity dramatically, and can be the bottleneck of the assembly line if poorly designed. In order to enhance the VM(Virtual Manufacturing) of mounting simulation for PCB(Printed Circuit Board) circuit modular, the virtual reality sim...

Automatic model generation, the consequential reduction of problem solving cycles and the need for a higher degree of data integration have long been characterized as significant challenges in the field of simulation of manufacturing systems. Especially operationally used manufacturing simulation models require a high degree of modeling detail and thus depend on a significant amount of input da...