Title: Bottleneck analysis in a pharmaceutical production line using simulation approach
Abstract:The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new framework to more efficiently investigate the high-speed production line in order to find out improving scenarios which could reduce the bottleneck...The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new framework to more efficiently investigate the high-speed production line in order to find out improving scenarios which could reduce the bottleneck effect and increase the production line output. A pharmaceutical company named Exir in Tehran, Iran was chosen to study the framework applicability. The proposed methodology integrates the simulation model of the line and bottleneck detection methods. Bottleneck detection methods could detect machine bottleneck by using the simulation model outputs. The improving scenarios could be designed based on bottleneck detection results. These scenarios are run in simulation model and evaluated upon desired performance measurements such as average daily production. The results analysis indicates that the average daily production could be increased by 20%.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-07-07
Language: en
Type: article
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