Simulation-based analysis of shared manufacturing systems

Stochastic extension of cellular manufacturing systems: a queuing-based analysis

Clustering parts and machines into part families and machine cells is a major decision in the design of cellular manufacturing systems which is defined as cell formation. This paper presents a non-linear mixed integer programming model to design cellular manufacturing systems which assumes that the arrival rate of parts into cells and machine service rate are stochastic parameters and descri...

An HLA-based distributed simulation for networked manufacturing systems analysis

Manufacturing systems can be thought as production networks nodes whose relations have a strong impact on design and analysis of each system. Commercial simulators are already adopted to analyse complex networked systems, but the development of a monolithic model can be too complex or infeasible when a detailed description of the nodes is not available outside the ‘owner’ of the node. Then the ...

Web-based Simulation of Manufacturing Systems

Powerful new features may be incorporated to simulation environments by exploiting existing Web technology. To demonstrate this, WebManSim, a prototype web-based manufacturing system simulator has been developed. The proposed system includes project management principles, supports communication and voting and provides workflow facilities and simulation program generation execution capabilities....

Estimated Returns to Scale with Interval Data in Parallel Manufacturing Systems with Shared Resources

Metamodel-Assisted Simulation-Based Optimisation of Manufacturing Systems (Camera Ready)

Many real-world manufacturing problems are too complex to be modelled analytically. In these scenarios, simulation-based optimisation is a powerful tool to determine optimal system settings. While traditional optimisation methods have been unable to cope with the complexities of many real-world problems approached by simulation, evolutionary methods have proven to be highly useful. This paper p...