Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Simulation Modeling and Analysis
Evaluating proposed capital and operational improvements at a marine terminal
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
A discrete event simulation model for reliability modeling of a chemical plant
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Nonlinear optimization to generate non-overlapping random dot patterns
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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This paper describes a debottlenecking study for different products in a chemical plant of The Dow Chemical Company. We used discrete event simulation to represent the chemical plant operations and to identify individual processes that limit the plant production. Our analysis successfully identified different bottlenecks for each product. The simulation will be used in future evaluations of the costs and benefits of different solutions identified for validated root causes. The simulation captures plant dynamics and can be easily leveraged to other improvement opportunities in the plant with no to little customization. In this paper, we present the general approach used for identifying the bottlenecks and the analysis results.