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Designing an Efficient Production System: A Case Study of a Clothing Company

Author(s) -

Maurizio Bevilacqua,

Filippo Emanuele Ciarapica,

Álvaro Penteado Crósta,

Giovanni Mazzuto,

Claudia Paciarotti

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

international journal of engineering business management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.352

H-Index - 22

ISSN - 1847-9790

DOI - 10.5772/56842

Subject(s) - production (economics) , clothing , discrete event simulation , industrial engineering , process (computing) , material flow , manufacturing engineering , computer science , clothing industry , order (exchange) , lead time , operations research , operations management , simulation , engineering , business , economics , ecology , macroeconomics , archaeology , finance , biology , history , operating system

This paper is based on a discrete-event simulation model and reproduces the sewing department of a clothing company involved in the fashion industry. It aims to quantitatively assess the effects of different production configurations on flow time and production capacity. In particular, the production phases of men’s jackets are examined. Eight configurations are evaluated, stemming from the combination of two parameters: batch size and number of machines. For each configuration, the flow time, the production capacity and the waiting time are computed. A subsequent Design of Experiment (DoE) analysis has been performed on these configurations, with the aim of identifying significant single and combined effects of the above parameters on the results observed. The goal is to obtain improvements in theproduction process. The data provided by the simulation is used in order to make a critical analysis of the system production and leads to the formation of proposals for the improvement of the lay-out

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