The intense global competition between firms in the past few years has driven home the importance of supply chain efficiency. Whether you’re planning an offshore strategy or producing closer to home, you need to focus on optimizing your supply chain.…
Push-based production planning makes greater benefit of advanced analytics compared to pull-based production planning and control. The reasons for this are manifold, but include the fact that push-based production planning involves forecasting of demand and subsequent production and capacity planning…
I am following up on my recent simplified job shop simulation example in SimPy. Today I want to show you how you can collect simulation data in a SimPy simulation model. I will use the data for data visualization. As…
Discrete-event simulation (DES) can be applied to a wide range of industries and domains where events occur in a discrete, sequential manner. It is applied when a system is so complex that it cannot be understood or solved with analytical…
At Production Support 56, we specialise in process improvement and manufacturing simulation. We have modelled many production lines and generally find that when a line is up to speed that it is relatively efficient. The more fruitful opportunities to improve…