Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation

Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) has been used extensively by companies for modelling and analysis of manufacturing systems, especially in evaluating the performance of a proposed system and choosing an appropriate design before actually implementing the proposed solutions. To demonstrate the advanta...

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Main Author: Ali, Nor Azizah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2003
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description Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) has been used extensively by companies for modelling and analysis of manufacturing systems, especially in evaluating the performance of a proposed system and choosing an appropriate design before actually implementing the proposed solutions. To demonstrate the advantage of DES, it was used as methodology in this project to analyze the performance of an Automated Flow Line, which is one of the basic concepts in manufacturing systems. A relevant artificial case study has been selected as a data source and experimentation on the developed models has been carried out using simulation software package called ServiceModel (version 3.5). Moreover, the result obtained from simulation model was evaluated according to the general terminology for analysis of Automated Flow Lines. The key parameters chosen are cycle time (T,), frequency of line stop per cycle (F), actual production time (T,), average hourly production rate (R,), average blocked (B,,), total hours of downtime (D), and line efficiency (E). Consequently, this dissertation has demonstrated the DES is a good method to analyze the performance of Automated Flow Lines, as well as a decisionsupport tool for management.
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spelling utm-80052018-09-27T04:04:00Z http://eprints.utm.my/8005/ Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation Ali, Nor Azizah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA Mathematics Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) has been used extensively by companies for modelling and analysis of manufacturing systems, especially in evaluating the performance of a proposed system and choosing an appropriate design before actually implementing the proposed solutions. To demonstrate the advantage of DES, it was used as methodology in this project to analyze the performance of an Automated Flow Line, which is one of the basic concepts in manufacturing systems. A relevant artificial case study has been selected as a data source and experimentation on the developed models has been carried out using simulation software package called ServiceModel (version 3.5). Moreover, the result obtained from simulation model was evaluated according to the general terminology for analysis of Automated Flow Lines. The key parameters chosen are cycle time (T,), frequency of line stop per cycle (F), actual production time (T,), average hourly production rate (R,), average blocked (B,,), total hours of downtime (D), and line efficiency (E). Consequently, this dissertation has demonstrated the DES is a good method to analyze the performance of Automated Flow Lines, as well as a decisionsupport tool for management. 2003-09 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/8005/1/NorAzizahAliMFC2003.pdf Ali, Nor Azizah (2003) Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation. Masters thesis, University of Salford, School of Accounting, Economics and Management Science. http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:56044
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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Ali, Nor Azizah
Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title_full Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title_fullStr Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title_full_unstemmed Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title_short Theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
title_sort theoretical study : analysis of automated flow lines using discrete-event simulation
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA Mathematics
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