By Jeff Joines (Associate Professor In Textile Engineering at NCSU) This is the second of the three part series on Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, and Simulation. The first part explained the Six Sigma methodologies. Recall...
Read MoreBy Jeff Joines (Associate Professor In Textile Engineering at NCSU) This is a three part series on Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, and Simulation. The first blog will explain the Six Sigma methodology and the bridge...
Read MoreThe annual Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) starts two weeks from today. Initially as a practitioner and then later as a vendor I have attended over 20 of these conferences in addition to dozens of other...
Read MoreAssembly processes are a common part of manufacturing and can be found in applications as diverse as apparel, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and even food processing. Assembly operations share many common simulation applications with general manufacturing,...
Read MoreSystems rarely perform exactly as predicted. A person doing a task may take six minutes one time and eight minutes the next. Sometimes variability is due to outside forces, like materials that behave differently based...
Read MoreGuest article from Sophie Scotts Over the past several months you have touched on many fields that simulation would benefit such as healthcare and disaster management. I would like now to recall something you said...
Read MoreOver the years, I have had several occasions to use medical facilities for myself and my family. Some visits were routine, such as for a diagnostic tests or images. Others were for much more critical...
Read MoreLast week in Data Collection Basics (Part 1) I discussed data collection, introducing the topics of identifying required data and then locating or creating that data. Once you have some data, you typically need to...
Read MoreEven though the people responsible for building models are often the “data collection people,” I know very few associates who think this is a particularly enjoyable part of their job. But data collection is a...
Read MoreWhile the last couple months have been pretty dry where I live here in the Northeastern part of the U.S., in the Southeastern part several severe hurricanes have already hit and it looks like more...
Read MoreWe all have stories about company decisions that make us shake our head. If you have ever worked for a large organization, it may have seemed that some of their decisions were, shall we say,...
Read MoreI mentioned a while back that I am a Boy Scout. OK, maybe my boyhood days are long gone, but I still consider myself to be a Scout. I learned many lessons as a Scout;...
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