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Title: |
Designing And Optimizing Production In A High Variety / Low Volume
Environment Through Data-Driven Simulation |
Authors: |
Virginia Fani, Bianca Bindi, Romeo Bandinelli |
Published in: |
(2021). ECMS 2021,
35th Proceedings DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2021 ISSN:
2522-2422 (ONLINE) ISSN:
2522-2414 (PRINT) ISSN:
2522-2430 (CD-ROM) ISBN: 978-3-937436-72-2 Communications of the ECMS , Volume 35, Issue 1, June 2021, United Kingdom |
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Virginia Fani, Bianca Bindi, Romeo Bandinelli (2021). Designing And Optimizing Production In A High Variety / Low Volume Environment Through Data-Driven Simulation, ECMS 2021 Proceedings Edited By: Khalid Al-Begain, Mauro Iacono, Lelio Campanile, Andrzej Bargiela European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2021-0010 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2021-0010 |
Abstract: |
HVLV environments are characterized by high product variety and small lot production, pushing companies to recursively design and optimize their production systems in a very short time to reach high-level performance. To increase their competitiveness, companies belonging to these industries, often SMEs working as third parties, ask for decision-making tools to support them in a quick and reactive reconfiguration of their production lines. Traditional discrete event simulation models, widely studied in the literature to solve production-related issues, do not allow real-time support to business decisions in dynamic contexts, due to the time-consuming activities needed to re-align parameters to changing environments. Data-driven
approach overcomes these limitations, giving the possibility to easily update
input and quickly rebuild the model itself without any changes in the modeling
code. The proposed data-driven simulation model has also been interfaced with
a commonly-used BI tool to support companies in the
iterative comparison of different scenarios to define the optimal resource
allocation for the requested production plan. The simulation model has been
implemented into a SME operating in the footwear industry, showing how this approach can be used by companies to increase their
performance even without a specific knowledge in building and validating
simulation models. |
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