{"title":"Virtual factory revisited for manufacturing data analytics","authors":"Sanjay Jain, Guodong Shao","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019949","url":null,"abstract":"Development of an effective data analytics application for manufacturing requires testing with large sets of data. It is usually difficult for application developers to find access to real manufacturing data streams for testing new data analytics applications. Virtual factories can be developed to generate the data for selected measures in formats matching those of real factories. The vision of a virtual factory has been around for more than a couple decades. Advances in technologies for computation, communication, and integration and in associated standards have made the vision of a virtual factory within reach now. This paper discusses requirements for a virtual factory to meet the needs of manufacturing data analytics applications. A framework for the virtual factory is proposed that leverages current technology and standards to help identify the developments needed for the realization of virtual factories.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121844677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel work-sharing protocol for U-shaped assembly lines","authors":"S. Sriram, M. Kuhl, Brian K. Thorn, A. Carrano","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020056","url":null,"abstract":"A U-shaped production line is considered one of the most flexible designs used by companies to adapt to varying production conditions and to implement lean concepts. Similarly, work-sharing allows for cross-training of a flexible workforce while achieving high levels of worker utilization. This paper proposes a new protocol for U-shaped assembly lines that relies on work-sharing principles and on an adaptation of bucket brigades to cellular environments. Discrete event simulation is used to maximize throughput while determining buffer locations and buffer levels for each worker. This model is validated with a physical simulation and then tested with industry data. The results show the protocol enables a high level of throughput and worker utilization for the manufacturing cell while capping the maximum amount of WIP in the system. The proposed protocol is generalizable with respect to the number of stations, processing times, types of processes, and worker velocities.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121974009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jinsoo Park, Haneul Lee, Byungdu So, Y. Kim, Byung H. Kim, Keyhoon Ko, Y. J. Chung, J. Kang, Bum-Chul Park
{"title":"New key performance indices for complex manufacturing scheduling","authors":"Jinsoo Park, Haneul Lee, Byungdu So, Y. Kim, Byung H. Kim, Keyhoon Ko, Y. J. Chung, J. Kang, Bum-Chul Park","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020082","url":null,"abstract":"Diversified and complicated manufacturing sites make optimal scheduling of production lines difficult. Under current manufacturing processes, it is almost impossible for schedulers to consider all the constraints of production processes. A strategy of simulation-based advanced planning and scheduling (APS) is employed to overcome difficulties that interfere with satisfactory on-time delivery and commitment to the current status. In simulation-based scheduling, key performance indices (KPIs) are important for selecting optimal dispatching rules in scheduling. In cases involving complex processes, in which the identification of appropriate KPIs is limited to selection among existing KPIs, KPIs should be chosen and modified carefully to optimize process management and to reflect all of the existing constraints of production. However, the existing methodologies for modifying KPIs are misplaced in complex manufacturing environments such as job-shop processes. We propose a new method to design and select appropriate KPIs that meet the characteristics of any given process, and verify with empirical analysis whether or not the KPIs meet requirements from experts of production lines.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129807271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Debriefing in gaming simulation for research: Opening the black box of the non-trivial machine to assess validity and reliability","authors":"J. V. D. Hoogen, J. Lo, S. Meijer","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020182","url":null,"abstract":"Gaming simulation allows for experiments with sociotechnical systems and has as such been employed in the railway sector to study the effects of innovations on robustness and punctuality. Systems work as non-trivial machines and the effect of an innovation on a dependent variable is potentially context, time and history dependent. However, several constraints inhibit the use of validity increasing measures such as repeated runs and increasing sample size. Based on a debriefing framework, insights from qualitative process research and six games with Dutch and UK railway traffic operators, we provide a guide on how to assess and increase reliability and validity. The key is for game players, observers and facilitators to open up the black box and thereby assessing how the innovation brought about any changes, if these changes are insensitive to changes in parameters and if the conclusions hold outside the game.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128797201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient storage of transport network routes for simulation models","authors":"R. Alanis","doi":"10.5555/2693848.2694091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/2693848.2694091","url":null,"abstract":"A heuristic approach is presented which, combined with the use of data structures, reduces storage requirements to store full optimal paths on transportation networks. The goal is to allow the use of full road networks on the implementation of simulations for the operation of a fleet of vehicles. The approach is based on the representation of routing information as a routing matrix, where we exploit structural properties of routing information to reduce storage requirements.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126756166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring occupancy and office equipment energy consumption using real-time location system and wireless energy meters","authors":"Nassim Masoudifar, A. Hammad, M. Rezaee","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019969","url":null,"abstract":"Buildings are one of the major energy consumers because of the need to meet occupants requirements. The commercial/institutional sector accounted for 14% of total energy consumption in Canada in 2009 while office buildings consumed 35% of this amount. Auxiliary equipment used 19% of the total energy consumed in office buildings. Previous studies showed the impact of occupancy behavior on IT equipment energy consumption. This paper proposes a new method for monitoring occupant behavior and energy consumption of IT equipment. Analyzing the resulting data can help evaluating the occupancy behavior impact on energy saving. Two wireless sensor technologies are investigated to collect the required data and to build an occupancy behavior estimation profile: Ultra-Wideband Real-Time Location System for occupancy location monitoring and Zigbee wireless energy meters for monitoring the energy consumption of IT equipment. The occupancy behavior estimation profile can be used to reduce energy consumption based on real-time occupants' information.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121356155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rafael Florencio da Silva Costa, Raphael A. Fagundes, Angelo A. de M. Freitas, Eduardo L. Ávila
{"title":"Economic evaluation of logistics infrastructure in oil industry using simulation - jet fuel supply case study","authors":"Rafael Florencio da Silva Costa, Raphael A. Fagundes, Angelo A. de M. Freitas, Eduardo L. Ávila","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020038","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of this study was supporting economic evaluation by assessing which new projects will be necessary and when they should be operating in order to achieve the customer service level required under a scenario of fast growth in jet fuel demand at Guarulhos terminal. In order to achieve this objective, it was built a conceptual model, data were collected and computer based model was implemented. By comparing the system's performance under different terminal configurations, it's possible to choose the most economical solution that performs well in different scenarios. The analysis revealed that the current infrastructure allows achieving the customer service level required until 2018. In 2019, it will be necessary to provide a solution to increase the delivery flow rate by only spending a small fraction of the previously budgeted capital expenditure, while keeping system's performance.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124033562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the proportion of tuberculosis recent transmission via simulation","authors":"P. Kasaie, D. Dowdy, W. Kelton","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020000","url":null,"abstract":"Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that can progress rapidly after infection or enter a period of latency that can last many years before reactivation. Accurate estimation of the proportion of TB disease representing recent versus remote (long ago) transmission is critical to disease-control policymaking (e.g., high rates of recent transmission demand more aggressive diagnostics). Existing approaches to this problem through cluster analysis of TB strains in population-based studies of TB molecular epidemiology are crude and prone to bias. We propose an agent-based simulation of TB transmission in conjunction with molecular epidemiologic techniques that enables study of clustering dynamics in relation to disease incidence, diversity of circulating strains, sampling coverage, and study duration. We perform a sequence of simulation experiments with regard to different levels of each factor, and study the accuracy of estimates from the cluster-analysis method relative to the true proportion of incidence due to recent transmission.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127710119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Due date control in order-driven FAB with high priority orders","authors":"Y. Chung, S. C. Park, Byung H. Kim, J. Seo","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7020098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7020098","url":null,"abstract":"Presented in this paper is a dispatching rule to achieve the on-time delivery for an order-driven FAB involving high priority orders. We classify orders into two groups; regular orders (RO), high priority orders (HPO). HPO lots have shorter cycle times, tighter target due date and higher margins than RO lots. The proposed rule introduces the concept of reservation for HPO lots, which means the provisional allocation of capacity to meet the on-time delivery of HPO lots. Since the rule considers the due date of HPO lots first, RO lots might be tardy. To minimize the tardiness of RO lots, the proposed rule considers tool utilization as well as on-time delivery of HPO lots. We developed a simulation model based on MIMAC6, and conducted experimentations with MOZART®. The experimentation results show that the proposed dispatching rule can achieve the on-time delivery of HPO lots with the minimum tardiness of RO lots.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126233430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards billion-scale social simulations","authors":"T. Suzumura, Charuwat Houngkaew, H. Kanezashi","doi":"10.1109/WSC.2014.7019940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2014.7019940","url":null,"abstract":"Many social simulations can be represented using mobile-agent-based model in which agents moving around on a given space such as evacuations, traffic flow and epidemics. Whole planet simulation with billions of agents at microscopic level helps mitigate the global crisis. It introduces new technical challenges such as processing and migrating many agents and load balancing among hundreds of machines. To overcome these challenges, well-designed software architecture of a simulator is essential. In this research, we proposed agent-based complex cellular automata architecture (ABCCA) and studied the performance and scalability of two cell-based processing models, through simple traffic flow simulation on multi-core distributed system. The experiments show that the computation speedup can be achieved by reducing granularity of tasks and processing only active spaces. We achieved running the traffic flow simulation with one billion of agents in almost real time on 1,536 CPU cores of total 128 machines of TSUBAME supercomputer.","PeriodicalId":446873,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2014","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126371776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}