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WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Incorporating Environmental Issues in a Filament Winding Composite Manufacturing System Simulation
This paper presents SimBuilder, a simulation system incorporating environmental and quality concerns into a traditional manufacturing simulation environment. These simulations can...
Dawn K. Russell, Phillip A. Farrington, Sherri L. ...
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Application of Real-Time Simulation to Assign Due Dates on Logistic-manufacturing Networks
This paper presents the application of real-time simulation to assign due dates on logistic-manufacturing networks. Information from the manufacturing, transportation, and supplie...
Alex J. Ruiz-Torres, Kazuo Nakatani
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Track Loss and Recovery for Intermittently Emitting Targets
There is far less literature on passive sensor systems for tracking intermittently emitting targets than for tracking continuously emitting ones. A methodology for evaluating thes...
Nicholas E. Rozen
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Using Cooperative Learning to Activate Your Simulation Classroom
Active and cooperative learning methods represent a paradigm shift in the delivery of engineering education. These techniques recognize that the passive model of the typical colle...
Manuel D. Rossetti, Harriet Black Nembhard
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Mobile Robot Simulation of Clinical Laboratory Deliveries
Flexible automation in the form of mobile robots holds the potential for decreasing operating costs while improving delivery performance in mid-size hospital delivery systems. Thi...
Manuel D. Rossetti, Amit Kumar, Robin A. Felder
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
WIP Evolution of a Semiconductor Factory after a Bottleneck Workcenter Breakdown
In semiconductor fabrication facilities, it can be observed an increase in work in progress (WIP) even weeks after the failure of the bottleneck workcenter. In this paper, we deve...
Oliver Rose
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
Developing a Simulation Strategy for British Airways OR
Many organisations have seen the use of simulation evolve, often in something of a piecemeal fashion. This may lead to some deficiencies in the way that simulation is employed. Th...
Stewart Robinson, Mark D. Stanger
WSC
1998
14 years 28 days ago
An Expert Systems Approach to Simulating the Human Decision Maker
Many simulation models include elements of human decision making which present some difficulty to the simulation modeller. It is often difficult to determine how a human goes abou...
Stewart Robinson, John S. Edwards, Wu Yongfa