Bottleneck identification and alleviation in a blocked serial production line with discrete event simulation: A case study

IF 2.8 3区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Advances in Production Engineering & Management Pub Date : 2020-06-30 DOI:10.14743/apem2020.2.353

G. Z. Li, Z. G. Xu, S. Yang, H. Wang, X. Bai, Z. Ren

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Abstract

Aiming at the gap between theoretical research and practical application in the production bottleneck field, we apply five bottleneck identification meth‐ ods in a serial production line in aerospace industry based on discrete event simulation and Plant Simulation software, meanwhile discuss the influence of the bottleneck machine quantity on the system performance. This paper evaluated the practicability, accuracy and limitation of various bottleneck identification methods at the practical level. The results of the bottleneck alleviation manifest that increasing the number of bottleneck machines can effectively improve the system performance, but the more machine quantity, the smaller performance improvement. More importantly, the paper studies the influence mechanism and function relationship of the bottleneck machine quantity on the maximum completion time from an interesting actual phenom‐ enon for the first time. The function obtains the condition that the maximum completion time achieves the minimum. The research and conclusion of this paper have essential reference significance for production guidance and theo‐ retical research, and can also contribute to narrow the gap between theory and application of the production bottleneck field. © 2020 CPE, University of Maribor. All rights reserved.

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Advances in Production Engineering & Management ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURINGMATERIALS SCIENC-MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CiteScore

5.90

自引率

22.20%

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期刊介绍： Advances in Production Engineering & Management (APEM journal) is an interdisciplinary international academic journal published quarterly. The main goal of the APEM journal is to present original, high quality, theoretical and application-oriented research developments in all areas of production engineering and production management to a broad audience of academics and practitioners. In order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, applications based on advanced theory and case studies are particularly welcome. For theoretical papers, their originality and research contributions are the main factors in the evaluation process. General approaches, formalisms, algorithms or techniques should be illustrated with significant applications that demonstrate their applicability to real-world problems. Please note the APEM journal is not intended especially for studying problems in the finance, economics, business, and bank sectors even though the methodology in the paper is quality/project management oriented. Therefore, the papers should include a substantial level of engineering issues in the field of manufacturing engineering.