Accelerating process excellence using virtual discrete event process simulation |
Lean practices significantly increase business competitiveness through the elimination of waste labour, time and material resources while delivering quality products on time, at least cost and lead time, and with greater efficiency. This collaborative R&D project will accelerate the adoption and use of lean practices within a wide range of industrial and service sectors. A Virtual Discrete Event Process Simulation (V-DEPS) tool will be developed capable of providing a learning, training and decision support environment for lean practitioners from complete novices to experienced lean champions. Novel virtual process modelling, discrete event simulation, advanced visualisation and adaptive optimisation tools will be developed that enable self-organisation of improvement teams, and provide assistance with identifying & prioritising problems, creative problem solving & autonomous decision-making and lean solution optimisation & implementation.
About the project
The cycle of events occurring will begin with V-DEPS model creation/updating. The discrete event simulation process will then be undertaken with the option of optimising specific elements of the model, eg minimise work-in-progress. Automatic analysis of the simulation results will then take place and will be used to identify a prioritized list of waste root causes and generate a set of performance metrics. Creative problem solving support will then be provided for solving specific problems. At all stages advanced visualization of the processes and performance metrics will be provided as well as lean training facilities. The technical approaches to the development of the overall system are as follows:
Project Progress
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