Simulation and analyze a production line by using Arena: A case study

Abstract

In many companies and manufacturing systems, Managers and engineers are looking for methods to find problems their production line like bottleneck so that they eliminate them whereas they want to obtain more productivity at the same time. Simulation is an appropriate tool to find and catch this purpose. In this project, a simulation computer is applied on a line production in Visionwork as a case study and by considering information obtained from simulation, bottleneck is determined, generating station and hand washing station. Then to increase productivity, two recommendation is proposed, both of them is investigated so that to find which bottleneck is more critical. Results shows that by increasing the machine in generating station and increasing labor in washing hand station, the company would be able to achieve higher utilization by 25% than the current system.