model elements, input, and output data. Manufacturing managers typically commission simulation case studies to support their decision-making processes. These studies are used to evaluate alternative solutions to manufacturing problems in areas such as plant layout, scheduling, capacity planning, capital equipment acquisition, inventory management, and supply chain planning. Procedures for perfo...

Modern manufacturing systems should satisfy emerging needs related to sustainable development. The design of sustainable manufacturing systems can be valuably supported by simulation, traditionally employed mainly for time and cost reduction. In this paper, a multi-purpose digital simulation approach is proposed to deal with sustainable manufacturing systems design through Discrete Event Simula...

Even though we have moved beyond the Industrial Age and into the Information Age, manufacturing remains an important part of the global economy. There have been numerous efforts to use modeling and simulation tools and techniques to improve manufacturing efficiency over the last four decades. While much progress has been made and an increasing number of manufacturing system decisions are being ...

This paper presents the problems and issues facing manufacturing companies in Malaysia, and analyses the reasons behind the growing demand for simulation. Such a demand can be mainly attributed to the companies’ search for methods to increase productivity, the emergence of manufacturing-oriented simulation software which requires no or little programming, and the graphical capability and availa...

Computer modelling, simulation and visualization of production flow allowing to increase the efficiency of production planning process in dynamic manufacturing networks. The use of the semi-automatic model generation concept based on parametric approach supporting processes of production planning is presented. The presented approach allows the use of simulation and visualization for verificatio...

A virtual factory integrated manufacturing system combined with system simulation and virtual reality is introduced in this paper. We describe the system architecture and development methodology, provide the working principle of process simulation and monitoring in virtual factory, and then explain the detailed applications of virtual factory integrated manufacturing system. With the visualizat...

Development of production systems, presents new ways of manufacturing. Agent-based systems are of emerging interest in the specification and implementation of manufacturing systems. In this paper, we have simulated a manufacturing system to introduce the role of intelligent decision making in manufacturing. The main idea is to develop independent agents which would create a formation for produc...

This paper presents a summary of the results from the simulation of a given two-stages production system which uses JIT. The system consists of an assembly line with two automated assembly cells and two assembly stock points and one manufacturing cell with three manufacturing stock points for storing reserved parts and one receiving stock. Carts with fixed capacity are used for handling the par...

With the adoption of integration and system perspectives in managing the manufacturing systems and the pressure imposed by the increased competition and rapidly changing business environment, the need has arisen for new approaches for simulating the manufacturing enterprise. We have proposed SDDES; a hybrid System Dynamics Discrete Event Simulation approach to simulating the integrated manufact...

This paper treats the optimization of production batches by computer simulation in a manufacturing company producing electric and pneumatic actuators. In its introduction part the article deals about a wider context of batch production optimization. Subsequently, the paper presents a procedure for creation of a simulation model in SIMPLE ++ software environment. Based on simulation of a manufac...