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Reference : Discrete Event Production Simulation in Shipyard Workshops


	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science Engineering, computing & technology : Civil engineering Engineering, computing & technology : Mechanical engineering
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/100682

Title :	Discrete Event Production Simulation in Shipyard Workshops
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Caprace, Jean-David [Université de Liège - ULg > Département ArGEnCo > Constructions hydrauliques et navales >]
	Moreira Freire, Roberto [ > > ]
	Assiss, Luiz Felipe [ > > ]
	Martin Pires, Carlos [ > > ]
	Rigo, Philippe [Université de Liège - ULg > Département ArGEnCo > Constructions hydrauliques et navales >]
Publication date :	Sep-2011
Main document title :	Proceeding of the 21th COPINAVAL
On invitation :	No
Audience :	International
Event name :	XXII COPINAVAL - PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF NAVAL ENGINEERING, MARITIME TRANSPORTATION & PORTS ENGINEERING
Event date :	27-30 September 2011
Event organizer :	Pan-American Institute of Naval Engineering
Event place (city) :	Bunos Aires
Event country :	Argentina
Keywords :	[en] DES ; Simulation ; Scheduling
Abstract :	[en] Nowadays, shipyards are making huge effort to efficiently manage equipments and resources such as laborers, gantry cranes, transporters, steel and block stock yards, etc. Previously scheduling was manually performed by an experienced manager of a shipyard. But such a scenario leads to undesirably long times for producing scheduling results. In addition, the quality of the scheduling results was usually not optimal. To improve the overall process, Discrete Event Simulations (DES) have been developed and recently use in shipbuilding industry. The use of simulation-based design and virtual reality technologies leads to higher efficiency in terms of work strategy planning, and offers, as a result, significant productivity gains. It gives computer-supported answers to the major questions: when and where to produce what and with which resources depending on the availability and restrictions of resources and materials. The first part of the paper presents a multi-criteria analysis to select the most appropriate DES software for shipyards. Then, the second part of the paper shows production simulation model focusing on block erection stage. Two different blocks splitting are compared and then the results are discussed.
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/100682

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