Chapter 3
Simulation Modeling
3.1 Introduction
Production systems are emerging as a paradigm across many industries. There are implementation variations but the essence of production systems is that a continuous one-piece flow is ideal with emphasis on optimizing and integrating systems of people, equipment, materials, and facilities, to achieve improvements in quality, cost, on-time delivery, and performance. Process improvements in these production systems are typically described as a reduction in cycle time or lead time; a reduction in the ...
