A Simulation Approach for Transition to JIT Production System

Abstract

Consumption is increasing day by day due to rapid developments in technology and increasing world population. Companies should review their production processes in order to keep up with the consumption rate and increase their competitiveness as well as profit margins. This research shows a case study of simulation application to improve solar panel manufacturing process. The aim is to achieve goals such as increasing system efficiency, reducing inventory and shortening delivery time. Efficient manufacturing process design may reduce work-in-process (WIP), waste, rework and faults, which may reduce the total number of products and yields an increase in the system cost. Inefficiency points were determined in the process based on the obtained observations of the manufacturing system. Various scenarios have been proposed to design such an efficient production system. According to the proposed scenarios, an increase in the utilization rates of machinery, personnel and the total number of final products has been achieved.

Modelo de Producción en la Industria Acuícola Peruana

“…En la etapa 5, se aplicó la herramienta JIT con el fin de elaborar un plan de compras a partir de un proyectado de ventas tal como se muestra en la Tabla 6. Fuente: Elaboración propia Asimismo, se desarrollaron etiquetas para la clasificación del alimento (materia prima) según la etapa en la que se encuentra la trucha para facilitar el consumo de este en los almacenes (Green et al, 2019Just-in-Time (JIT;Kilic & Erkayman, 2021). Se obtuvo que la venta promedio diaria es de 204 Kg y el número de truchas anual es de 23, 103 mostrando un incremento significativo que mejora la oferta y permite incrementar las ventas.…”

“…Por ello, hemos seleccionado las relaciones óptimas de herramientas lean que, una vez implementadas, puedan ser sostenibles en el tiempo (Green et al, 2019Just-in-Time (JIT;Thomas, 2018). La implementación de la herramienta JIT permite a las empresas desarrollar una capacidad de producción muy superior a la anterior debido al impacto directo en los resultados de producción que tiene esta herramienta, además de brindar beneficios de reducción de costos, flexibilidad a la demanda variable y tiempos de producción (Kilic & Erkayman, 2021;Mishra, Kumar & Garg, 2016).…”

Simulation Based Performance Improvement: a Case Study on Automotive Industries

“…Arena simulation was adopted in many applications. For example, it was applied in: landmine and improvised explosive device detection [7], performance improvement of assembly lines [8][9][10][11][12], manufacturing processes [13], optimization of production mix [14], manufacturing cell layout [15], solar panel production processes [16], analysis of system failures [17,18], food industry [19], retail stores [20], health care [21] and many other applications.…”

Management Decisions in Multi-Variety Small-Batch Product Manufacturing Process

“…Thus, the existing mathematical analysis approaches for the management of product manufacturing process cannot satisfy the global optimization and high feasibility required for the product manufacturing process. Neither do they reflect the actual production situation accurately and comprehensively [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. In addition, they have difficulty in quantifying the factors affecting the management of product manufacturing process.…”