The allocation of improvement programs in a flow shop for single and multi-products: a simulation assessment

Q1 Multidisciplinary

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management Pub Date : 2019-07-26 DOI:10.1504/IJASM.2019.10022795

P. Renna, Michele Ambrico

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The continuous improvement is crucial to increase the company's competitiveness in today's market. This paper proposes a multi-dimension simulation environment to test improvement programs in a flow shop context. The simulator developed tests the programs proposed in the literature: centralised, distributed and hybrid. The main original contributions of this research are: a simulation environment with higher details; the analysis of several performance measures as the throughput, lead time, work in process, average utilisation and the defected products for each workstation of the production line; the case of flow shop with multi-products. The experimental plan concerns the change of the following issues: set-up times, bottleneck position and process times. The flow shop without improvement programs is the benchmark of the performance measures. The simulation results show how the centralised policy is the better in a single product case, while the hybrid policy leads to the better results in case of multi-products.

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流动车间中单个和多个产品改进程序的分配：模拟评估

持续改进是提高公司在当今市场上的竞争力的关键。本文提出了一个多维仿真环境来测试流程车间环境下的改进方案。所开发的模拟器测试了文献中提出的方案:集中式、分布式和混合式。本研究的主要原创性贡献是:具有更高细节的模拟环境;对生产线各工位的吞吐量、交货期、在制品、平均利用率、次品等性能指标进行分析;多产品流动车间的案例。实验计划涉及以下问题的变化:设置时间，瓶颈位置和处理时间。没有改进计划的流程车间是绩效衡量的基准。仿真结果表明，集中策略在单一产品情况下效果较好，而混合策略在多产品情况下效果较好。

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International Journal of Agile Systems and Management Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary

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2.70

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期刊介绍： The objective of IJASM is to establish an effective channel of communication between academia, industry and persons concerned with the design and development of systems. Change is eternal and perpetual, irrespective of type of system. Systems created in the course of the advance of human civilization need to be functionally and operationally sustainable amid changes in technological, political, socio-economical, financial, cultural and other environmental challenges. IJASM aims to promote and harmonize knowledge developments in the emerging fields of agile systems research, sustainability and vulnerability analysis, risk assessments methodologies, complex systems science, e-organisation and e-supply chain management, with emphasis on the international dimension, particularly breaking cultural barriers, and on national contexts, globalisation and new business practices. As such, we aim to publish papers presenting new research, innovative theoretical approaches, changes in agile management paradigms, and action (both examples of successes and failures as long as there are important lessons to be learned) from leading scholars and practitioners. Papers generally fall into two broad categories: those grounded in theory and/or papers using scientific research methods (e.g., reports of original empirical studies, models, critical reviews of existing empirical research, theory pieces that clearly extend current thinking); and those focusing on innovative agile approaches that are based on well reasoned extensions of existing research, experiential knowledge, or exemplary cases (e.g., thought pieces, case studies, etc).