Abstract

The manufacturing industry has entered the era of Industry 4.0/Smart Manufacturing. New technologies have dramatically changed the way manufacturing activities are carried out on the factory floor. In addition to an enhanced level of equipment automation, automation of decision-making has been one of the key objectives of these new initiatives. On the other hand, a critical issue that has been overlooked is the construction of mathematical models in manufacturing research and studies, which are typically done manually. This manual, ad-hoc nature of mathematical modeling is quite problematic when modeling the job flow in a manufacturing process. As a result, the quality of the models obtained may heavily depend on the experience and personal preference of the modeler. The goal of this paper is to develop a method to standardize and automate the modeling process using standard manufacturing key performance indices in the framework of Bernoulli serial production line model.

This content is only available via PDF.
You do not currently have access to this content.