Reporting requirements and performance measures in integrated approximate factory modelling

Abstract

Simulation is an established method of predicting, in detail, the performance of manufacturing systems at the shop or cell level. Recent developments in computer hardware and software technology, combined with methodologies for approximate modelling, allow the extension of simulation to modelling of complete factories or manufacturing enterprises. Such applications require appropriate performance measures, possibly different from those generated in more detailed simulation, to be derived from the models. Examines the performance measures which can be usefully predicted by such models, their relationship with one another, and their propagation through the hierarchical structure of factory management systems. Applies practically the taxonomy of performance measures derived to industrial case studies, and includes a brief example of application.

Citation

Popplewell, K. and Bing, Y. (1995), "Reporting requirements and performance measures in integrated approximate factory modelling", Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 6 No. 5, pp. 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069510093424