A cost-effective simulation procedure for achieving target throughput of new production lines

A cost-effective simulation procedure for achieving target throughput of new production lines

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Article ID: iaor20073353
Country: South Korea
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 104
End Page Number: 110
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Journal: Journal of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
Authors: ,
Keywords: simulation: applications
Abstract:

When a new facility such as automobile assembly line is designed, computer simulation is often used to estimate its actual throughput level. If it falls short of the target throughput level, then the design must be modified to increase the throughput capacity. For complex facilities having parallel processes and network of material flows, the modification procedure is not trivial. Even if the capacity of a particular bottleneck process is increased, the target throughput may not be achieved because the bottleneck may move to another process. Furthermore, each process has a different set of options with different cost to increase the capacity. In this study, we present a systematic procedure of determining the cost-effective set of options which achieves the target throughput.

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