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Authors:
Christoph Laroque
Robin Delius
Jan-Hendrik Fischer
Dennis Horstkaemper
Keywords: material flow simulation; robustness; production planning; mathematical optimization
Abstract:
We propose the use of the material flow simulation to evaluate the robustness of a production plan, which was created and optimized with no respect to unforeseen derivations. Since the necessary probabilities for machine failures and similar operational events on the floor can easily be integrated in the simulation model, in order to analyze, how initial plan performs in these situations. The influence of unforeseen events in daily production cannot be modeled within mathematical optimization without consuming large amounts of computation time. We show a possible way to use simulation to evaluate and enhance a production plan. We illustrate the developed process using a real-world use-case of medium complexity and can show, that simulation is able to evaluate the robustness of a given pro-optimizes production plan.
Pages: 13 to 20
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: October 23, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4537
ISBN: 978-1-61208-169-4
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011