Integrated design of production systems in a lighting manufacturer using CAD and simulation in layout and process optimization

摘要

This paper discusses production systems design issues, applied to the production systemlayout of a manufacturer of lighting fittings and components. In this paper, production systemsdesign software tools – Information Systems, Simulation and Computer Aided Design areintegrated, exploring ways of dealing with data diversity and assuring valid and efficientproduction system layouts, taking advantage of the mentioned data integration. This integration isimplemented on Microsoft Access (databases with system knowledge repository), AutoCAD(layout design) and WITNESS (simulation). The software package developed was called IDS(Integrated Design of Systems). This approach can help on global system optimization thatconsiders all important system resources and system performance measures. Solutions areexpected to be faster to achieve and better than solutions obtained with non-integratedapproaches. IDS approach is open and accessible, thus enabling different companies to use thisadvanced production systems design tool, taking advantage of simulation and CAD systems andtheir integration. This application intends to validate the concept and functionalities of theproposed tool, on a real industrial case study.