Iterative use of simulation and scheduling methodologies to improve productivity

Experienced and wise industrial engineering educators and practitioners have long understood that industrial engineering is a coherent discipline encompassing techniques that work best synergistically, not a motley collection of specialized techniques each isolated in a separate chimney. As an example of the synergies which industrial engineering can bring to process improvement in a production environment, this case study presents the integrated use of process simulation, production scheduling, and detailed analysis of material-handling methods and their improvement. The study undertook the identification and improvement of production and scheduling policies to the benefit of a manufacturing process whose original throughput capacity fell significantly short of high and increasing demand.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Karthik Krishna Vasudevan, Ravindra Lote, Edward J. Williams, Onur M. Ülgen
• Keywords: Discipline Encompassing Techniques, Industrial Engineering, Modeling And Simulation, Wise Industrial Engineering, WSC 2008