Simulation and animation of an assembly system

  • Authors:
  • Bahram Keramati;Christine M. Kelly-Sacks;Gregory L. Tonkay

  • Affiliations:
  • Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY;Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY;Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa

  • Venue:
  • WSC '83 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Winter Simulation - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

A software package was developed for eventual use by manufacturing engineers responsible for the design of an automated assembly loop. The loop consists of a number of cells through which palletized parts flow. A simulation of this system was developed which includes the effects of blocking, machine down times and pallet transport time. In addition to the statistical information usually obtained with any simulation, an animation of the process was also developed which provides the manufacturing engineer with an interactive-graphic environment to examine the dynamic performance of the system.