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Using DES/ABS Approach to Model and Simulate Bus Assembling Process

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This paper presents the results of the project, which goal is to analyze the production process capability after reengineering the assembly process due to expansion of a bus production plant. The verification of the designed work organization for the new configuration of workstations on new production hall is necessary. The simulation model is the best tool for visualization and verification of the work organization based on individual workteams which are supporting particular workstations. Owing to the simulation it is possible to define the imperfections of this conception and elaborate improvements which will minimize the idleness of workers and downtime occurring in the assembly process. The objective of performed activities is to provide assurance that the new organization of assembly process will lead to maximum utilization of production capacity in the company. To solve described problems authors propose a method based on mixing DES (Discrete Event Simulation) and ABS (Agent Based Simulation) approach. DES was used to model the main process – material flow (buses), ABS was used to model assembling operations of teams of workers.

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Presented research works are carried out under the project – status activities of Faculty o Engineering Management DS 2016 Poznan University of Technology.

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, ul.Strzelecka 11, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Pawel Pawlewski & Kamila Kluska

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  1. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

    María José Escalona

  3. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

    Sylvain Giroux

  4. University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland

    Patrycja Hoffa-Dąbrowska

  5. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián

  6. Department of Informatics, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  7. Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Nayat Sánchez-Pi

  8. Inst. Comp. Sci. & Bus. Info. Sys. (ICB), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

  9. Departamento de Informática e Estatístic, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis S.C.,, Brazil

    Ricardo Azambuja-Silveira

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Pawlewski, P., Kluska, K. (2016). Using DES/ABS Approach to Model and Simulate Bus Assembling Process. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39387-2_10

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