A practical bottleneck detection method
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Productivity improvement: shifting bottleneck detection
Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers
Production capacity analysis of a shock absorber assembly line using simulation
WSC '04 Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation
Metodology for selecting the best suitable bottleneck detection method
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
Quantitative simulation approach to ameliorate deadlock concerns in automotive manufacture
Proceedings of the 2010 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
Semi-automatic simulation-based bottleneck detection approach
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
| Hi-index | 0.01 |
The performance of a manufacturing or logistic system is determined by its constraints. Therefore, in order to improve the performance, it is necessary to improve the constraints, also known as the bottlenecks. Finding the bottlenecks, however, is not easy. This paper compares the two most common bottleneck detection methods, based on the utilization and the waiting time, with the shifting bottleneck detection method developed by us, for AGV systems. We find that the two conventional methods have many shortcomings compared to the shifting bottleneck detection method. In the example presented here, conventional methods are either unable to detect the bottleneck at all or detect the bottleneck incorrectly. The shifting bottleneck detection method not only finds the bottlenecks but also determines the magnitude of the primary and secondary bottlenecks.