ENHANCING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY SCHEDULING PERFORMANCE FOR AN ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY AND TEST SYSTEM USING ARENA SIMULATION
Keywords:
Electronic assembly & test system, Bottleneck, Waiting time, Arena simulationAbstract
Simulation is a powerful tool to investigate many production scheduling alternative solutions, helping decision maker to take right decisions for resource optimization or enhancing industry performance. Simulation offer flexibility in the production planning and scheduling. It is an easier way to build up models to represent real life scenarios and to enhance system performance. In this paper, we have used simulation to model an electronic assembly and test system. The rework process was excessively used and this leads to slow throughput. Modifications such as increasing the resource capacity or considering the machine failure situation are made to enhance the efficiency and throughput. Results show that, modifications in the sealer and rework operations provide great improvement in terms of queue statistics, utilization factors, cycle times, and number of parts produced. The Arena7.0 simulation software is used to model and simulate the considered system.
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