Title :
Model-based performance engineering of General Motors’ vehicle supply chain
Author :
Zimmermann, Armin ; Knoke, Michael ; Yee, Shang-Tae ; Tew, Jeffrey D.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin
Abstract :
We present results of a collaboration project, during which parts of General Motors´ north American vehicle supply chain have been modeled and evaluated. A variant of colored stochastic Petri nets has been developed for this task, and support for model creation and performance evaluation was implemented in our tool TimeNET. Variations of the model and their stepwise evaluation lead to suggestions about how the supply chain can be reorganized in order to improve the time between customer order and vehicle delivery (order-to-delivery time).
Keywords :
Petri nets; automobile industry; supply chain management; supply chains; General Motors; TimeNET; collaboration project; colored stochastic Petri nets; customer order; model-based performance engineering; performance evaluation; stepwise evaluation; vehicle delivery; vehicle supply chain; Automotive engineering; Delay; Logistics; Performance analysis; Petri nets; Research and development; Resource management; Stochastic processes; Supply chains; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2007. ISIC. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0990-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0991-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4414154
