Identifying manufacturing system states through simulation for use in industry 4.0

The history of Manufacturing and Manufacturing Systems is very rich. Therefore, the research literature is also bountiful. Historically, the cost structure of manufactured products is composed of Material, Labor and Facility. Research literature on each of these components by itself is also abundant. Material cost is mostly viewed from Material Handling Systems (MHS) logistics perspective. MHS is further viewed as external and internal to the business. Labor Cost (LC), although very critical, and by its nature very complex, is either considered determinant or not considered at all. Facility is further studied from layout perspective as well as scheduling perspective. Facility may comprise of many sub systems including but not limited to physical assets (Building and Machinery) and soft assets such as databases, computing software and business intelligence. Together, they are termed Production Systems (PS). A decision maker in a Job Shop, specialized in aerospace parts production company, on a typical day, is faced with all three components of cost. Therefore, optimized utilization of these three resources together becomes a necessity. An outline of an integrated approach in decision making is proposed in this research.

Author

• Parikh, Yogesh B.

Identifier

hdl:10057/27834

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:soar.wichita.edu:10057/27834