An innovative training of production planners through virtual production performing

Abstract

Original scientific paper Nowadays the production process with as few as possible deadlocks is the most important goal of management in every company. An optimized production process can be reached with well-trained personnel and especially with well-trained schedule planners. In this contribution, a new strategy on how to train production planners for different types of production by using virtual factory is presented. Also, two specially developed parametric simulation models for typical make-to-order and large-scale types of production are presented. Every model describes the real production process in detail so that it enables the observation of responses to the different input data. In the first step, the strategy covers the training of personnel so that they learn how varied input data reflect in the output results. The second strategy step is supporting schedule planning by using virtual factory where variants of schedule plans are tested much earlier than the real production process is performed. Keywords: modelling; optimization; simulation; schedule plan; training; virtual factory Inovativna obuka za planere proizvodnje kroz odvijanje virtualne proizvodnjeIzvorni znanstveni članak Danas je proces proizvodnje s najmanje zastoja najvažniji cilj upravljanja u svakom poduzeću. Optimizirani proces proizvodnje može se postići s dobro obučenim osobljem i osobito s dobro obučenim planerima proizvodnje. U ovom članku predstavljena je nova strategija treniranja planera proizvodnje za više tipova proizvodnje uz korištenje virtualne tvornice. Također su prikazana dva posebno razvijena parametarska simulacijska modela za tipične vrste pojedinačne i velikoserijske proizvodnje. Svaki model opisuje stvarni proizvodni proces u detalje i tako omogućuje promatranje odgovora na različite ulazne podatke. U prvom koraku ova strategija obuhvaća obuku osoblja, da nauče kako se različiti ulazni podaci odražavaju u izlaznim rezultatima. Drugi korak ove strategije je podupiranje planiranja proizvodnje uz pomoć virtualne tvornice, u kojoj se varijante proizvodnog plana testiraju mnogo ranije nego što se realni proizvodni proces odvije.