Symbiotic simulation for business process re-engineering in high-tech manufacturing and service networks

  • Authors:
  • Malcolm Y. H. Low;Stephen J. Turner;Ding Ling;Hai L. Peng;Lai P. Chan;Peter Lendermann;Steve Buckley

  • Affiliations:
  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore;D-SIMLAB Technologies Pte Ltd, Singapore;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In today's highly competitive business environment, the speed of a company's response to changes by adapting its own business processes is vital to its survival. In this paper, we propose a symbiotic simulation system that can monitor the real-world operations of high-tech manufacturing and service networks, carry out what-if analysis and optimization on service-oriented based business workflow, and dynamically deploy the optimized business workflow onto the real-world operations. A case study of an aerospace spare parts logistics system was carried out to investigate the viability of the system.