Manufacturing process analysis—tools and applications

  • Authors:
  • Richard Harper;Michael J. O'Loughlin

  • Affiliations:
  • Principle Software Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation, Andover, MA;Software Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation, Andover, MA

  • Venue:
  • WSC '87 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

The use of Simulation for evaluating manufacturing lines has become an accepted means of gathering information and understanding of the lines. One of the primary reasons for this acceptance is the fact that the analysis is now being performed by the people who are experts in the process; those who understand the real world interactions inherent to their system. However, simulation is only one of many tools that can be used to evaluate and understand an existing or proposed manufacturing line. In this paper, the authors discuss how these various tools can be brought together in a tool suite to help both simulation experts and non-experts gain insight into the manufacturing process under consideration.