TY - JOUR
T1 - Practical simulation application
T2 - Evaluation of process control parameters in Twisted-Pair Cables manufacturing system
AU - Mahfouz, Amr
AU - Hassan, Said Ali
AU - Arisha, Amr
PY - 2010/5
Y1 - 2010/5
N2 - Intensive competition and rapid technology development of Twisted-Pair Cables (TPC) industry have left no room for competing manufacturers to harbour system inefficiencies. TPC are used in various communication and networks hardware applications; their manufacturing facilities face many challenges including various product configurations with different equipment settings, different product flows and Work in Process (WIP) space limitations. The quest for internal efficiency and external effectiveness forces companies to align their internal settings and resources with external requirements/orders, or in different words, significant factors must be set appropriately and identified prior to manufacturing processes. Integrated definition models (IDEF0, IDEF3) in conjunction with a simulation model and a design of experiments (DOE) have been developed to characterize the TPC production system, identify the significant process parameters and examine various production setting scenarios aiming to get the best product flow time.
AB - Intensive competition and rapid technology development of Twisted-Pair Cables (TPC) industry have left no room for competing manufacturers to harbour system inefficiencies. TPC are used in various communication and networks hardware applications; their manufacturing facilities face many challenges including various product configurations with different equipment settings, different product flows and Work in Process (WIP) space limitations. The quest for internal efficiency and external effectiveness forces companies to align their internal settings and resources with external requirements/orders, or in different words, significant factors must be set appropriately and identified prior to manufacturing processes. Integrated definition models (IDEF0, IDEF3) in conjunction with a simulation model and a design of experiments (DOE) have been developed to characterize the TPC production system, identify the significant process parameters and examine various production setting scenarios aiming to get the best product flow time.
KW - Design of experiment
KW - IDEF modelling language
KW - Simulation modelling
KW - Twisted-Pair Cables
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77249143354&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.simpat.2009.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.simpat.2009.12.008
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77249143354
SN - 1569-190X
VL - 18
SP - 471
EP - 482
JO - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
JF - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
IS - 5
ER -