Estimating simulation metamodel parameters for unexpected shop floor real time events
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Simulation modeling of a dynamic job shop rescheduling with machine availability constraints
Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on on Computers and industrial engineering
Scheduling under machine breakdown in a continuous process industry
Computers and Operations Research
Clinic: aggregating subsystem models into an automotive total plant throughput model
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
Development and integration of a reactive real-time decision support system in the aluminum industry
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
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Assembly lines with closed loop parallel lanes have the potential to continue to be productive when individual stations breakdown. A requirement in such parallel lane systems is that the products must exit the parallel lanes in the same sequence as they entered. Such lines offer the opportunity to run the line partially either by shutting down an affected lane or by bypassing the failed station to continue to run on all lanes. Bypassing a station, however, requires a backup station that can pick up the incomplete work at a later stage in the process. However, when a station breakdown occurs, it is not readily obvious as to whether to bypass the affected lane or just the affected station. This decision will vary depending on which station failed and the length of the repair. This paper presents a discrete-event modeling approach to provide a decision-making tool during breakdowns.