Today, demand is shifting to more customized products, which will lead to small batches, short lead times, and unique specifications. To remain competitive in this changing environment, manufacturers must improve their layout, productivity, responsiveness, flexibility, and quality. Each layout problem has its own unique characteristics. Among the tools currently available to researchers and companies to optimize production cycles, it is worth highlighting software for the processes’ visualization and modeling. Simulation tools are used to connect all processes of the flexible manufacturing system into one intelligent system and analyze the production. Layouts are analyzed through computer simulations to verify the true potential of the facility and to find the most efficient long-term operating plan and the optimal structure to meet the increasing demands for customization, quick response, and overall quality, while reducing lead times. The production systems are complex systems that consists of many parts. Modeling a virtual copy of a physical system is quite a complex task and requires the availability of a large amount of information and a set of accurate models that adequately reflect the modeled reality. After a brief presentation of discrete event simulation, a methodology for analyzing and optimizing the production process and its application case is presented in this work within the Master Italy company process.
Discrete Event Simulation for the Analysis and Re-Engineering of Production and Logistics Cycles: The Case of Master Italy Company
Francesca Intini;Davide Veneto
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2024-01-01
Abstract
Today, demand is shifting to more customized products, which will lead to small batches, short lead times, and unique specifications. To remain competitive in this changing environment, manufacturers must improve their layout, productivity, responsiveness, flexibility, and quality. Each layout problem has its own unique characteristics. Among the tools currently available to researchers and companies to optimize production cycles, it is worth highlighting software for the processes’ visualization and modeling. Simulation tools are used to connect all processes of the flexible manufacturing system into one intelligent system and analyze the production. Layouts are analyzed through computer simulations to verify the true potential of the facility and to find the most efficient long-term operating plan and the optimal structure to meet the increasing demands for customization, quick response, and overall quality, while reducing lead times. The production systems are complex systems that consists of many parts. Modeling a virtual copy of a physical system is quite a complex task and requires the availability of a large amount of information and a set of accurate models that adequately reflect the modeled reality. After a brief presentation of discrete event simulation, a methodology for analyzing and optimizing the production process and its application case is presented in this work within the Master Italy company process.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.