Improving operational effectiveness in the job-shop environment through discrete event simulation and innovative process design

A key value stream for Company X is a manufacturing area dedicated to production of precision electro-mechanical systems, of which they are contracted to service during the complete lifecycle. Currently, the production system is dedicated to the refurbishment of these electro-mechanical systems; it could be characterized as a high-mix low volume production system with a-job-shop layout. The operations team is being pressured to increase both production volumes and the product mix, while maintaining a competitive cost structure in a highly constrained environment, in terms of both space and resources. This thesis proposes two distinct projects to address the challenges faced. First, develop a framework to analyze the value stream, utilizing a discrete event simulation (DES) tool to characterize the production system.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Proctor, Clinton Lee.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Daniel Frey and Roy Welsch.

• Sloan School of Management.
• Mechanical Engineering.
• Leaders for Global Operations Program.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122281

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122281