Facility Layout for SME Food Industry via Value Stream Mapping and Simulation

Amit, Norani; Ali, Mohammad

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)01169-7

Cited by 18 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In the context of increased demand for a higher degree of product customization and personalization, simulation leads to resource economy [28][29][30]. Manufacturing processes simulation, as an intermediate stage in implementing digital manufacturing asks for the use of specific technologies and methods [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

Section: Production Process Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent-Based Simulation of Value Flow in an Industrial Production Process

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current competitive environment demands companies to be more and more efficient. In order to increase manufacturing efficiency, two apparently independent approaches have emerged: lean strategies, focusing on identifying and minimizing non-added value activities, identifying wastes in the system and their elimination, and information tools for planning and controlling activities. In this paper, a manufacturing system was considered for which it was necessary to increase the production capacity in order to respond to the customer’s increased demand. A practical case study in the automotive industry for a medium-sized enterprise was considered. In order to investigate the production process parameters and to implement lean principles, Value Stream Mapping (current analysis and optimized solution) and Anylogic agent-based simulations were carried out. Based on this, the lean performances, specific for the target VSM, were evaluated in terms of key performance indicators. The benefits of integrating agent-based simulation in the design and analysis of the value flow in the production chain are the capitalization of the information offered by Value Stream Mapping and the possibility to choose the best one from the possible scenarios. It generates important time and cost reductions without further resource waste.

show abstract

Section: Production Process Simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agent-Based Simulation of Value Flow in an Industrial Production Process

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It represents activities in a flow chart manner. There are two types of VSMs: current state and future state maps (Abdulmalek & Rajgopal, 2007;Suhadak & Amit, 2015). A current state map is drawn after observing current activities, and it Baby et al…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementation of Lean Principles to Improve the Operations of a Sales Warehouse in the Manufacturing Industry

Baby¹,

Prasanth²,

Jebadurai³

2018

IJTech

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper deals with the implementation of lean techniques in a sales warehouse in the manufacturing industry. It highlights efforts to improve warehouse operations by eliminating waste using lean tools such as a value stream map (VSM). A current state VSM exposes waste in an existing system. High order picking time, improper storage, delay in vehicle loading, and low space utilization make the warehouse inefficient. Implementation of a U-shaped flow layout in the warehouse improves order picking time, vehicle loading time, and space utilization. A future state VSM shows the new state of operations before implementation. After lean implementation, considerable improvements were observed in vehicle loading, space utilization, and storage. Thus, the efficiency of warehouse operations is increased, resulting in quicker responses to customers' demands.

show abstract