A simulation approach to design a motoreducer assembly and testing facility

  • Authors:
  • Harold J. Steudel

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WSC '81 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This paper describes the application of a digital computer simulation model to design a large facility for assembling and testing approximately 30,000 motoreducers a year. The simulation model is designed and calibrated entirely on actual operating data, and used in conjunction with statistically designed experiments to evaluate the effects of various controllable factors on the size and configuration of the department level facility. The paper shows that a relatively simple and straightforward simulation model can provide quite insightful and valuable results, yet still be well within the capabilities and budget of the “ordinary practitioner” of management science in facilities planning.