Essay On Simulation

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Jeffrey S. Smith (2003), presented detail survey on the use of Simulation for manufacturing system design and operation. According to his noting numerous books deal with the general topic of simulation (for example, Banks 1998; Banks, Carson, Nelson 1995; Law and Kelton 2000; McHaney 199 1; Pooch and Wall 1993; and Ross 1990, among many others). More books deal with the design, application, and use of specific simulation languages and pack-ages (for example, Dunning 1985; Harrell, Ghosh, Bowden 2000; Kelton, Sadowski, Sadowski 2002;Pegden, Shannon, Sadowski 1995; Pritsker 1986; and Winston 1986, among many others).Then he mentioned the papers solely reflecting application of simulation to manufacturing design and operation (for example Carrie 1988; Heginbotham (ed.) 1985;Hurrion (ed.) 1986; and Law and McComas 1986).Evidently, simulation is a noteworthy tool in the general systems analysis domain and in the manufacturing system design and operation domain in particular.As his survey specifically focused on the modeling and development aspects pertaining to manufacturing systems simulation, other components of simulation analysis are equally important. These include input modeling (Leemis 2001), design of simulation experiments (Barton 2001), validation and verification (Sargent 2001), and output analysis (Sanchez 2001).Several authors describe the general use of simulation for manufacturing system design (for example, Law et al. 1993; Law and McComas 1999; Lipton 1969; and Norman and Norman 1986). Schroer and Tseng (1998) describe the simulation modeling of complex manufacturing systems. Sanders (1986) describes the general issues associated with simulating automatic assembly systems. Heavey and Browne (1996) describe the use of ...

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...right and Haslam (1999) and Russell et al. (2007), study of work (Zandin, 2001), ergonomics and work measurement aspects (Laring et al. (2002) and Udosen (2006). Longoet et al. (2006) used M&S in combination with 3-D virtual environments, ergonomic standards and work measurement for supporting the effective design of an assembly line .In concluding remark they state that concerning to the assembly workstation, their methodology allows to evaluate the impact of each design parameter on multiple performance measures (The Permissible Force related to lifting activities, the Stress level related to working postures, the energy expenditure and the process Time). The final result was the ergonomic effective design of the assembly workstation: a completely new workstation layout characterized by several ergonomic improvements in terms of energy expenditure and process time.

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