Industrial Engineering Journal ›› 2011, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (3): 124-127.

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Simulation Study on Production Flow in Auto Part Manufacturing Based on Witness 

  

  1. College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
  • Online:2011-06-30 Published:2011-07-08

Abstract: Aiming at optimizing the production flows, simulation study is done for auto part manufacturing process in a company by using simulation platform Witness. By analyzing the production process, a model is built that can run in Witness. By simulation, problems are found and improvements are made to the production flows. Consequently, equipment utilization is increased by 91.43%, the production cycle time is reduced by 43.43%, and the productivity is increased by 67.80%. This is a significant improvement.

Key words: production flow, simulation, Witness