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Title: |
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Simulation Framework To Help In Lean Manufacturing Initiatives |
Authors: |
Fernando Sevillano,
Miguel Serna, Marta Beltrán, Antonio Guzmán |
Published in: |
(2011).ECMS
2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski, J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho. European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2011 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-2-9 25th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Jubilee Conference Krakow,
June 7-10, 2011
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Citation
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Sevillano, F., Serna, M., Beltran, M.,
& Guzman, A. (2011). A Simulation Framework To Help In Lean Manufacturing
Initiatives. ECMS 2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski,
J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho (pp. 304-310).
European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2011-0304-0310 |
DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2011-0304-0310 |
Abstract: |
Lean Manufacturing initiatives try to understand where the
sources of waste are in a manufacturing process in order to minimize or avoid
them and to add value to the stakehold- ers. The improvement actions related to lean methods are
always incremental, fast and easy; mainly based on peo- ple’s experience and on
simple tools. For example, a Value Stream Map (VSM) is created to have a
visual representa- tion
of the material and information ¤ows involved in
the production process, allowing improvement teams to detect where is the
waste introduced and where is the value added. The integration of simulation with VSM could consider-
ably improve the results obtained in lean projects, helping the decision
makers in adding dynamic information to the usually considered static
pictures of the processes. The in- formation obtained from what-if
simulations allows to de- tect improvement
opportunities, to prioritize them, to an- alyze the
best implementation alternative, and to quantify the possible bene£ts of the proposed actions. This
work presents the LeanSim framework, an easy to use
tool based on Matlab and Simulink,
capable of inte- grating a lean method such as VSM
with simulation. Fur- thermore, a case study of an
improvement project at a milk production plant is presented to illustrate the
utilization of this new framework on a real environment. |
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