1. USE OF SIMULATION SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION.
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Ojstersek, Robert and Buchmeister, Borut
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INDUSTRIAL efficiency , *ASSEMBLY line methods , *SIMULATION software , *INDUSTRY 4.0 , *INDUSTRIAL productivity - Abstract
This paper presents an introduction of two simulation environments for the purpose of optimizing production line. The time in which we are implementing the concept of Industry 4.0, a part of which is based on automated and robotic production systems, we want to pre-check financial and production efficiency of the proposed new updated concept of our existing production line. A comparison of two different programming environments for discrete systems simulation will be presented in this paper on the applied industrial example. Simulation model enables calculation of machine utilization, throughput time, number of finished products and minimum needed workers (MNW). If we want to justify the use of simulation environments for the purpose of optimizing production, we must firstly show the real world example as in presented paper. The result will justify the redesign of the existing production line and justify the use of simulation software tools for carrying out preliminary tests to create new more productive production line, which is designed on concept of Industry 4.0. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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