Title
Automated production system simulations using commercial off-the-shelf simulation tools.
Abstract
A multi-year research project focused on a global aerospace company's design-to-production transition, and in particular how to answer production-related questions much earlier in a program's design cycle than is possible today. A fundamental difficulty is that the time and expertise required to formulate appropriate analysis models prevents their routine use, especially in new program development. The project's goal was to reduce these requirements, and by late 2014 a methodology had been developed for on-demand analysis generation to answer routine questions about production systems. A pilot project was conducted in 2015 to demonstrate efficacy, that an implementation of the methodology could in fact reduce by at least an order of magnitude the time required to answer a frequently-asked question, in a repeatable way while specification of the products, their process plans, planned facilities, and available resources were frequently changing. This paper summarizes the methodology, its pilot project implementation, and preliminary results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WSC.2016.7822163
Winter Simulation Conference
Field
DocType
ISSN
Aerospace,Object-oriented modeling,Data modeling,Systems engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Program development,Solid modeling,Commercial off-the-shelf,Analysis models,Design cycle
Conference
0891-7736
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-4484-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George Thiers100.68
Timothy Sprock222.07
Leon F. McGinnis349450.09
Adam Graunke400.34
Michael Christian500.34