A database supported discrete parts manufacturing simulation

  • Authors:
  • William P. Rundren;Charles R. Standridge

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WSC '81 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

This paper discusses a prototype decision support system for discrete parts manufacturing. Basic decision support system concepts are presented. The context of this analysis effort within the entire technical operations of the firm is shown. The use of typical, real production data stored in a database for both traditional reporting purposes and as data input to a simulation model is discussed. Thus, the model can process both currently known future orders and generate currently unknown future orders in analyzing future production requirements. Furthermore, model outputs which measure the ability of the production system to meet future requirements are stored in the database. Thus, they may be analyzed and reported independently of the running of the model.