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Title:

Balancing Assembly Line In The Footwear Industry Using Simulation: A Case Study

Authors:

Virginia Fani, Bianca Bindi, Romeo Bandinelli

Published in:

 

 

2020). ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited by: Mike Steglich, Christian Muller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther, European Council for Modeling and Simulation.

 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.7148/2020

ISSN: 2522-2422 (ONLINE)

ISSN: 2522-2414 (PRINT)

ISSN: 2522-2430 (CD-ROM)

 

ISBN: 978-3-937436-68-5
ISBN: 978-3-937436-69-2(CD)

 

Communications of the ECMS , Volume 34, Issue 1, June 2020,

United Kingdom

 

Citation format:

Virginia Fani, Bianca Bindi, Romeo Bandinelli (2020). Balancing Assembly Line In The Footwear Industry Using Simulation: A Case Study, ECMS 2020 Proceedings Edited By: Mike Steglich, Christian Mueller, Gaby Neumann, Mathias Walther European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2020-0056

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7148/2020-0056

Abstract:

Fashion is one of the world’s most important industries, driving a significant part of the global economy representing, if it were a country, the seventh-largest GDP in the world in terms of market size. Focusing on the footwear industry, assembly line balancing and sequencing represents one of the more significant challenges fashion companies have to face. This paper presents the results of a simulation-optimization framework implementation in such industry, highlighting the benefits of the use of simulation together with a finite capacity scheduling optimization model. The developed simulation-optimization framework includes the conduction of a scenario analysis that compares production KPIs (in terms of average advance, delay and resource saturation) related to different scenarios that include or not one or more type of stochastic events (i.e. rush orders and/or delays in the expected critical components delivery date).

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