Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow

Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow

The general question addressed by this work is how best productivity can be enhanced in the process flow of a lens manufacturing company without incurring any major extra cost. Process analysis has been conducted in the process flow of the firm in order to identify improvement prone areas and improv...

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Main Authors: Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy, Wong, Kuan Yew
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Published: IEEE Computer Society 2008
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TS Manufactures
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/7034/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AMS.2008.119
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spelling my.utm.70342011-06-27T09:19:27Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/7034/ Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy Wong, Kuan Yew TS Manufactures The general question addressed by this work is how best productivity can be enhanced in the process flow of a lens manufacturing company without incurring any major extra cost. Process analysis has been conducted in the process flow of the firm in order to identify improvement prone areas and improvement alternative solutions were proposed. The application of discrete event simulation using WITNESS software has been employed in the evaluation of the production improvement solutions in order to identify which alternative solution yields the highest productivity. Generic performance measures and specific organizational performance measures has been investigated to provide subtle insights into the perceived benefits of adopting alternative manufacturing process structures in the process flow using simulation. IEEE Computer Society 2008 Article PeerReviewed Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy and Wong, Kuan Yew (2008) Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow. Second Asia International Conference on Modelling & Simulation . pp. 806-811. ISSN 978-0-7695-3136-6/08 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AMS.2008.119 DOI 10.1109/AMS.2008.119
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Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy
Wong, Kuan Yew
Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
description The general question addressed by this work is how best productivity can be enhanced in the process flow of a lens manufacturing company without incurring any major extra cost. Process analysis has been conducted in the process flow of the firm in order to identify improvement prone areas and improvement alternative solutions were proposed. The application of discrete event simulation using WITNESS software has been employed in the evaluation of the production improvement solutions in order to identify which alternative solution yields the highest productivity. Generic performance measures and specific organizational performance measures has been investigated to provide subtle insights into the perceived benefits of adopting alternative manufacturing process structures in the process flow using simulation.
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author Olugu, Ezutah Udoncy
Wong, Kuan Yew
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Wong, Kuan Yew
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title Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
title_short Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
title_full Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
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title_full_unstemmed Simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
title_sort simulation study on lens manufacturing process flow
publisher IEEE Computer Society
publishDate 2008
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/7034/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AMS.2008.119
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