| INTERFACING SIMULATION
WITH COSTING SOFTWARE TO DRIVE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM PROTOTYPE
MANUFACTURING TO HIGH VOLUME MANUFACTURING
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| Catherine M.
Harmonosky Jennifer L. Miller Scott L. Rosen The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 |
Mark T.
Traband Rick Tillotson Applied Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University State College, PA 16804-0030 |
Dave
Robbie Lockheed Martin Government Electronics Systems Mail Stop 105-047 199 Borton Landing Road Moorestown, NJ 08057 |
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| Often companies are faced with the situation of "ramping-up" production of a new product. Although this may seem like it should be a simple task, making the transition from a manufacturing environment that makes small volumes of some product well to an environment that must make large volumes well entails many decisions regarding equipment, scheduling and control and manufacturing philosophy. Many factors influence these decisions, including the need to meet production volume goals and costs associated with achieving these goals. This paper will discuss how discrete event simulation data can be interfaced with a costing software package to guide manufacturing line design decisions in a company transitioning from small volume, job-shop like manufacturing of a product to larger production run volume manufacturing | ||
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| BPR AND LOGISTICS: THE
ROLE OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELS |
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| Leon F.
McGinnis School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, 30332-0205, U.S.A. |
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| In manufacturing and distribution, a core process is lo-gistics, and the cost of logistics is roughly 10% of GDP in the US. Designing, managing, and improving indus-trial logistics systems has never been more challenging, or more critical to competitive success. Fortunately, rapid advance in computational technology promises to provide industrial logistics system designers the kinds of design tools taken for granted by product designers. This paper identifies some opportunities and challenges, and highlights some recent successes in achieving the vision of powerful, integrated, computational platforms for industrial logistics system design. | ||
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| eSCA: A
Thin-Client/Server /Web-Enabled System For Distributed Supply Chain
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| H. Bob
Chen Oliver Bimber Chintamani Chhatre Elizabeth Poole Stephen J. Buckley IBM T.J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, U.S.A. |
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| eSCA is a client server, web-enabled architecture and front-end system for IBM's Supply Chain Analyzer (SCA), a new "best-of breed" software tool and methodology for measuring, analyzing, and reengineering complex supply chains. eSCA extends the capability of SCA through a computing network with server-based and web-enabled functionality. eSCA consists of two distinct versions: eManager and Web-enabled SCA. The eManager version provides model catalogs, interactive modeling, seamless model/file transfer, batch experiments, and post-simulation data analysis. The web-enabled version provides a rapid way for users to access SCA through the web. The software development process for eSCA adopted the unified process: use-case driven, architecture-centric, iterative, and incremental. This paper focuses on the eSCA use cases and the application architecture. It is shown that eSCA is a reusable architecture for many different applications. | ||
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| IMPACT OF CONNECTION
BANK REDESIGN ON AIRPORT GATE ASSIGNMENT
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| Michel
Turcotte Gillian M. Mann Aaron L. Nsakanda Air Canada (Zip 045) P.O. Box 9000 Postal Station Airport Dorval (Quebec) CANADA H4Y 1C2 |
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| Along with marketing and maintenance implications, hub optimization is an important part of the flight schedule development process. The Air Canada flight schedule at its Toronto hub is based on two-hour non-directional connection banks. The purpose of this research is to analyze an alternative to this rule consisting of directional connection banks and, more specifically, to assess how this would impact the gate assignment performance. | ||
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| BUSINESS PROCESS
SIMULATION A FUNDAMENTAL STEP SUPPORTING PROCESS CENTRED MANAGEMENT |
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| Marc
Aguilar Tankred Rautert Banque Générale du Luxembourg, S.A. 50, Avenue J.F. Kennedy L-2951 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG |
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Alexander J.G.
Pater Andersen Consulting Apollolaan 150 1070 AT Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS |
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| Business processes are increasingly recognised as the key to competitive survival. The important opportunities inherent to this invisible economic asset are the foundations of process centred management. Simulation of business processes creates added value in understanding, analysing, and designing processes by introducing dynamic aspects. It provides decision support by anticipation of future changes in process design and improves understanding of processes. The example of Banque Générale du Luxembourg shows, how simulation is used successfully to support the building of process centred management in a banking environment. | ||
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| SIMULATION ASSISTED
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| Mark R.
Grabau Andersen Consulting 1666 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006-2873 USA |
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Gregory R.
Clay Andersen Consulting 500 North Woodward Ave., Suite 2900 Detroit, MI 48226 USA |
| ABSTRACT | ||
| Numerous industries, including those in
the automotive and pharmaceutical industries, use a program approach to
product development. Companies must plan the start times of programs in
order to meet future revenue requirements. At the same time, companies
perform resource planning to set targets for human and capital
requirements. Traditional spreadsheet analyses lack the ability to
incorporate variability in program arrival patterns, program phase
lengths, program resource needs, and program success. The implication of
this static analysis is an often inaccurate view of programs, resources,
revenues and costs in the future. This paper describes an implementation of program planning utilizing discrete event simulation. The benefits of this approach are described, including 1) a flexible input mechanism for capturing the planner's assumptions, 2) approaches to introducing variability into the analysis, and 3) organization of the results in an easy-to-use format. | ||
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| THE USE OF SIMULATION IN
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| Les
Pang William T. Hodson Information Resources Management College National Defense University Washington, D.C. 20319 |
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| The purpose of this paper is to show how simulation technology can serve as an effective educational tool to enhance the learning of process reengineering concepts. Three examples used at the Information Resources Management College, National Defense University are presented all of which illustrate the successful application of simulation to a process improvement. This paper also discusses lessons learned and implementation issues and explores the future of simulation in the classroom. | ||
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| RECONCILIATION OF
BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS MODELLING VIA DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION
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| George M.
Giaglis Ray J. Paul Alan Serrano Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH, Middlesex, UNITED KINGDOM |
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| Modeling techniques have been productively applied to Business Process (BP) redesign. They have been also successfully employed to assist Information Technology (IT) applications design and development. However, although BP and IT interact in practice, suggesting that modeling in those areas should also be done in parallel, surprisingly few works have addressed the issue of integrated BP/IT modeling. In this paper we discuss the potential of discrete-event Business Process Simulation (BPS) and Computer Network Simulation (CNS) models to work in parallel to provide a link between the BP and IT modeling domains. To this end, we propose a modeling framework and a methodology for linking BPS and CNS models, and present an example case that demonstrates the practical feasibility and efficacy of the approach. | ||
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| "PERSONNEL FORCECASTING
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING" A PROPOSED SIMULATION COST MODELING
METHODOLOGY |
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| Stephen R.
Parker John A. Marriott National Imagery and Mapping Agency Studies and Analysis Division 14675 Lee Road Chantilly, Virginia 20151-1715, U.S.A. |
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| A unique approach is developed for
evaluating personnel requirements of the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency (NIMA). With this approach new ways of measuring personnel
availability are proposed and available to ensure that NIMA remains ready
to provide timely, relevant, and accurate imagery, imagery intelligence
and geospatial information in support of the national security objectives
of the United States during the projected defense draw down beyond the
year 2000. The development of this analysis methodology was established as an alternative approach to existing studies to determine appropriate hiring and attrition rates, under all categories, to maintain appropriate personnel levels of effectiveness to support existing and future mission requirements. The contribution of this research is a prescribed method for the strategic analyst to incorporate a personnel and cost simulation model, which can be used to project personnel requirements and evaluate workforce sustainment, at least cost, through time. This will allow various personnel managers to evaluate multiple resource strategies, present and future, maintaining near perfect hiring/attrition policies to support a 9000+ NIMA workforce. | ||
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