Simulation of Instrument Panels Production Process: Modelling a Digital Twin of the Production System and Improving the System Through DES
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Production engineering (MPPEN), MSc
Publicerad
2019
Författare
Narayana Shetty, Abishek
Kushalappa Koorana, Gagan Kumar
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Sammanfattning
International Automotive Components (IAC) has always kept up with the advanced
technologies and now aspires to simulate the production system expecting ways to
improve it. A production system is very complicated due to several governing factors
and planning improvement in the production is a meticulous process. With
simulation, the engineers and the managers get a better picture of how a change
in the production is going to affect the system. The purpose of this thesis is to
help the company improve its production with the help of simulation and answer
some of the "what if" questions pondered by the management. The thesis work is
confined to company-specific objectives and delivers the results and reasons from
the simulation. This thesis develops a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model for
production-related investigations and deriving conclusions to the ideas. The DES
model is a digital twin of the factory, built using AutoMod following Jerry Bank’s
methodology. AutoStat is used to simulate a scenario for several iterations considering
many events within the system.
Results of this study are analyzed and provided in terms of the throughput time of
the products and the utilization of resources. Detecting bottlenecks and suggesting
improvements has been an important activity. A general remark from the thesis
is that any change in the production facility is escalated and easily comprehended
using a DES tool and simulation is therefore viewed to be a very useful tool to
improve a production facility.
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Ämne/nyckelord
AutoMod, Bottlenecks, Digital Twin, DES, Jerry Banks methodology, Simulation