New Simulation Approach to Redesign the Facility Capacities in the Multi-Stage Flow-Shop Production System

Abstract

This paper proposes a new simulation approach to detect the bottleneck of a production system automatically and improve the productivity to the target level after a few iterations. This new method is applied to a large production system which produces various kinds of pipes. The best capacity plan with minimum investment is obtained.
It is concluded that this new method is more practical and effective to redesign the facility capacity compared with the theoretical and/or analytical methods.