Used CNC machines in supply chain strategies

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 production and analytics

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…

Job shop simulation with salabim in Python

Following my recent article on job shop simulation in Python with SimPy I was asked to also publish an example covering salabim in Python. SimPy and salabim have similar syntax, with some differences. Both are used for discrete-event simulation (DES)…

Visualizing SimPy job shop simulation

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) use cases

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…