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Why Flow Simulation

  • Fact based decisions
  • Reduce the losses
  • Increase the productivity

Benefits/profits

  • Test future system
  • Test without disrupting production
  • Identify bottlenecks
  • Find optimal solutions

process

  • Collecting data
  • Create a Flow Simulation model
  • Verify and validate it
  • Run experiment and optimizations

Areas of use

  • Bottleneck analysis
  • Prioritize resources
  • Buffer dimensioning
  • Capacity calculations
  • Choose concept
  • Choose supplier
  • Optimize sequence
  • Optimize batch sizes

Examples of questions

  • What will be the throughput/h in the production system be?
  • How does the throughput/h change if the cycle time is reduced by 10% in station 3?
  • Which of these two scenarios gives the highest throughput/h
  • How should the buffer slots be distributed to maximize the throughput/h?
  • How many buffer slots are required to reach a rate of 60 parts/h?
  • Which station is the bottleneck in the system?
  • Which action has the greatest effect on throughput/h?
  • Which of these systems is the most profitable?

purposes

  • Calculation/Evaulation
  • Understanding/Education
  • Project guidance

Complexity levels

  • Simulation
  • Optimization
  • Knowledge extraction

Domains

  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics/Warehouse
  • Health care