Production simulation

Delfoi has delivered over 600 production simulation projects where as most advanced Delfoi experts have individually managed  over 100 simulation projects. This gives advantages to our customers. We can put the focus to innovation and problem solving.  Our customers will benefit from Delfoi experties by getting results with added value in budget and on-time.

Prodcution simulation has succesfully used for

• Investment planning and analysis
• Capacity evaluations
• Production control strategy development
• New product introduction planning
• Layout planning
• New factory planning
• Education

Typical simulation project will help you to

• reduce WIP
• Resource utilization
• identify bottle necks
• maximise capacity, throughput time
• decrease lead times
• optimize product mixes
• failure responses
• number of resources needed(machines, buffers, shifts, labors etc.)
• production planning verification

Simulation project

Typical Simulation project

• Problem definition and setting of objectives

• Intitial data collection and analysis

• Modelling

• Model verification (is model working like real production?)

• 1st simulation run and model validation (are results exact?)

• Simulation runs and analyses

• Documentation presentation of the results

Successful simulation project

• Recognise and limit the problem

• Specify initial data

• Specify the phenomenons to be studied

• When modelling

• begin with rough approach, focus on problem points

• concentrate to essential

• simplify

• Project meetings

• Model validation

• Budget enough time for the project

Benefits

• Direct answers to ”what-if” questions

• Critical factors for throughput-time, WIP and resource load

• Direct implementation of investment-free enhancements
• ’rock-bottom’ levels

• Common view of production methods

• Production planning and control rules

• Tool for change management, testing of new business and service concepts