A company that makes circuit boards wants to change the layout of the plant, but wants to minimize issues in the layout before they start building.
A view of the project, as if you were standing there.
Students at the University of Pittsburgh looked at the value of changing the layout. The students entered variables for the current system and the proposed system:
The results were measured by:
Workstations and production lines
The simulation indicated that with the proposed changes:
While there were improvements in some areas, there weren't enough improvements to offset the cost of reconstruction and compensate for the other issues created by the new layout.