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Productivity in a flexible manufacturing cell simulated in promodel using path networks type crane
Authors: María Elena Bernal Loaiza, German Cock Sarmiento, Jorge Hernán Restrepo Correa
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This research focuses on the design of a simulation
of the process in a flexible manufacturing cell at the
Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Tecnológica
de Pereira, aiming at measuring and choosing the
one alternative of solution that improves to a greater
degree the productivity of the current system using
the results provided by the software Promodel. In order
to do this, the stages of the simulation as definition
of the system, model formulation, identification of variables, data collection, implementation and interpretation
were used.
As a result, the productivity was calculated taking
into account the variables of the model and simulation
time, at the same time the information from
each of the locations was interpreted, finding the
percentage of use and total number of entities for
locations with unit capacity, and for locations with
greater capacity there is information concerning to
the percentage of empty time, partially occupied,
full and unavailable regarding available time. In
contrast to other simulations, in this design, on the
networks the type of network Crane was used, associated
to the resources of model. Which facilitates
the movement of robot arms with the parts circulating
through the system.