Modeling of a manufacturing cell using a graphical simulation system based on Smalltalk-80

Authors:
Timothy Thomasma;Onur M. Ulgren
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Michigan - Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn Mi and Production Modeling Corporation, 214 Devonshire Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan;Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Michigan - Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd., Dearborn Mi and Production Modeling Corporation, 214 Devonshire Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Venue:
WSC '87 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Winter simulation
Year:
1987

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Abstract

A simulation model of a manufacturing cell is constructed in order to test the accuracy of an analysis of the cell done without simulation. The analysis does a good job of ranking alternative designs according to throughput, but overestimates the throughput by about fifteen percent. The model is built using a simulation system written in Smalltalk-80 that features icon-based programming and animation. The experience of using the simulation system to build this particular model is described.