Evaluating the Robustness of Production Schedules using Discrete-Event Simulation

Evaluating Contention Management Using Discrete Event Simulation

Understanding the behavior and benefits of contention managers is important for designing transactional memory implementations. Contention manager design is closely tied to other design decisions in a transaction memory implementation, and therefore experiments to compare the behaviors of contention managers are difficult. This paper presents a discrete event simulator that allows researchers t...

Reduction of production disturbances of a shoemaking industry through a discrete event simulation approach

This study presents a reduction of production disturbances of a shoemaking industry through discrete event simulation approach. The study is conducted at Peacock Shoe factory found in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  This factory faces line balancing problem that becomes production disturbance for its assembly lines. Detail time study is carried out for the selected shoe model using stopwatch. Assembly ...

Using Discrete Event Simulation for Evaluating Engineering Change Management Decisions

Evaluating Disturbance Robustness of Railway Schedules

Railway traffic is operated according to a detailed schedule, specifying for each train its path through the network plus arrival and departure times at its scheduled stops. During daily operations, disturbances perturb the plan and dispatchers take action in order to keep operations feasible and to limit delay propagation. This paper presents a thorough assessment of the possible application o...

Discrete Event Simulation of Networked Print Production

In print media industries networked production gains increasing importance. The relatively young XML based communication standard (JDF/JMF) allows to specify workflow models and data exchange. The proposed concept of a simulation framework for modelling of networked print production is based on an object-oriented approach implementing modules for the resources and controls applied in this parti...