| Article ID: | iaor19991201 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 97 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 348 |
| End Page Number: | 362 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Agnetis A., Lucertini M., Nicol F., Rossi F., Pacifici A., Nicoletti S., Oriolo G., Pacciarelli D., Pesaro E. |
| Keywords: | manufacturing industries |
This paper deals with the material flow management in a large-scale manufacturing process, namely the assembly of automobiles in a highly automated plant in Italy. After a detailed description of the plant from the viewpoint of material flow issues, the modeling process and the methodologies employed to address the problems are illustrated. The decision models were validated by means of simulations of the real plant in several different production scenarios (varying demand volume and mix, resource availability, etc.).