A comparison of modelling paradigms for manufacturing line

Author

De Souza, Robert ; Huynh, Richard ; Chandrashekar, Muthu ; Thevenard, Didier

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. & Production Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

14-17 Oct 1996

Firstpage

1253

Abstract

The paper presents different approaches to simulation of a manufacturing line, namely the discrete event, system dynamics and graph theoretic approach. The modelling approaches are applicable to manufacturing as well as other systems. A software package called PROSIM has been developed at the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada for continuous system simulation. In this paper, we compare PROSIM with two other commercially available software packages, ARENA and ITHINK, using an example of a manufacturing line. The results obtained are in excellent agreement. The software packages and actual line are used as a research and teaching resource in the Design Research Centre at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Keywords

digital simulation; discrete event simulation; graph theory; production control; production engineering computing; software packages; ARENA; ITHINK; PROSIM; continuous system simulation; discrete-event approach; graph theoretic approach; manufacturing line; modelling paradigms; simulation; software package; system dynamics approach; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer aided manufacturing; Continuous time systems; Electronics packaging; Manufacturing systems; Production engineering; Pulp manufacturing; Software packages; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3280-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1996.571288

Filename

571288