SIMULATION OF LARGE STANDARD STILLAGE PLACEMENT ON A DIESEL-ENGINE ASSEMBLY

摘要

BMW Motoren GmbH in Steyr, Upper-Austria is the most important manufacturer of diesel engines in the whole BMW automotive group. A new strategy to enhance the capacity on one of the two assembly lines and avoid problems in room limitation as well an expected potential for optimization of forklift utilization has lead to the development of a new set of mo dules to simulate the supply of the assembly lines. Within the simulation study, different strategies for order assignment (order dispatching) could be examined. The most important parameters could be identified and their influence on the number of line stops due to mi ssing parts, which means low productivity, could be shown.