Importance of Handling Resources’ Incorporation Into Simulation Expert System Approach

Manufacturing System (MS) sizing is a crucial task to complete in order to obtain the desired MS performance and efficiency. It involves selecting the required number of resources from each used type in a given planning horizon. In fact, different approaches coupling simulation/optimization tools have been developed to solve this issue and evaluate the MS performance. One of these approaches is the Simulation Expert System Approach (SESA). Unfortunately, the application domain of this approach is limited in sizing only the production resources (machines and labor) but neglects the material handling system (MHS) components. Moreover, omitting the transferring problem is not viable in the real world due to its importance in each shop floor. Thus, the aim of this paper is to describe the evolution of SESA, then, to check if the simulation optimization tools used in SESA are still relevant. This paper also investigates the importance of incorporating MHS in this approach and finally proposes some improvement opportunities for SESA including the tackling of the MHS fleet sizing problem. In fact, the wide literature review performed in this research indicates that SESA is still a pertinent approach but it must be improved. Therefore, it is expected that SESA improvement opportunities proposed in this work will greatly assist industrialists in enhancing the overall MS performance, providing a significant productivity increase and a minimization of the total production costs.

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“…This paper is an extension of a work presented in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT) [1].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Improvement opportunities of a Simulation/Expert System Approach for Manufacturing System Sizing: A review and proposal

Imen¹,

Masmoudi²,

Elleuch³

et al. 2019

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Importance of Handling Resources’ Incorporation Into Simulation Expert System Approach

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Improvement opportunities of a Simulation/Expert System Approach for Manufacturing System Sizing: A review and proposal

Improvement opportunities of a Simulation/Expert System Approach for Manufacturing System Sizing: A review and proposal

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