A manufacturing performance evaluation tool for optimizing flexible manufacturing system design and operation. Case study of how MCM worked with Engineering Group to capture systems expertise for a powerful manufacturing performance evaluation tool.
The largest CIS rail car building facility, Tver Carriage Works, needed to choose the best passenger rail car concept for a city train. The plant needed to compare passenger entrance/exit times during peak loads for concepts that had different door amounts and widths, and then choose the best variant. They contracted ITS Consulting to perform this task. The consultants found pedestrian simulation modeling to be the best possible instrument to provide a solution.
Distributors, such as retailers, are the intermediaries between producers of products and other entities in the distribution supply chain. They often encounter problems with supply chain configurations and fleet setups. To analyse and optimize this interaction for one of the largest book distributors, engineers from Goldratt Research Labs used simulation and vehicle routing optimization. This case study will provide an overview as to how this was performed.
A biotech startup, providing experimental personalized medical treatment, wanted to conduct data-driven pharmaceutical manufacturing simulation to optimize decision-making processes when delivering new products. These products were undergoing clinical trials, and the manufacturing processes remained unclear while US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval was pending. The company was short of resources, but it was crucial to produce its products as fast as possible and without failures.
RUSCON is one of the major container shipping companies in the CIS region. The company needed a container yard planning solution to modernize one of the rail container terminal and determine maximum capacity of the whole facility and its components. It sought the expertise of container yard simulation specialists from Dilibrium Consulting Company to model terminal components including the container yard, transshipment equipment, and rail infrastructure.
Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG is a global supplier of technology and equipment for the photovoltaics, semiconductor, and microelectronics industries. The company needed to identify the best-automated production line and factory configuration to minimize costs and maximize throughput and reliability.
A public electricity company in France needed to optimize routes to ensure that all orders were delivered by electric trucks on time. They decided to develop a delivery route optimization model using simulation software, visualize the logistics network, and collect statistics. To reflect the real system, the team had to consider trucks’ battery capacity, chargers’ electric power, and many other constraints.
Bryden Wood, in collaboration with Tata Steel and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, developed a simulation model of the factory system. Using simulation, Bryden Wood was able to test a few different scenarios. They excluded transport times to get a ‘best case’ boundary output. Also, the developers included and excluded process times and changed the production schedule, which had an impact on the sizing of different factory areas.
The cladding leak detection shop is part of an automated line of fuel assembly production. Leak control is based on heating the fuel element groups. While warming up, defective units eject the control gas, which is detected by a leak locator. The defected group is divided into two parts. Each part is screened in the same way until the leaking fuel element is found. The model, built in AnyLogic, simulates two algorithms of leak detection shop operation.
The UK Wastewater industry is valued at £8.7 billion and employs 42,000 people. Every day it deals with over 16 billion tons of wastewater, transforming bio-resources into useful by-products like energy. Presently, deregulation and competition are increasing in the wastewater sector, creating opportunities for supply chain innovations at different points of water treatment. Utility companies are now competing against each other to manage bio-resources, making the configuration of wastewater supply chains, and the efficiency of their logistics networks a massively profitable industry.