Simulation Design of Manufacturing Processes and Production Systems

The paper addresses up-to-date approaches to model design of manufacturing processes and production systems. In view of high complexity and labor intensity of designing manufacturing processes and production systems, it is quite expedient to use computer facilities. It is most appropriate to predict the results of designing manufacturing processes and production systems by means of simulation modeling. The stages of creating manufacturing process models, computer modeling and simulation modeling are described. The presentation of ongoing events with a full retention of their logical structures and time sequence takes place in simulation modeling of production systems or manufacturing processes. Simulation modeling makes it possible to determine the most accurate characteristics of manufacturing processes (technical performance, the time of processing and assembling, the use or load factors etc.). Some examples of practical application of models in design are given. It is revealed that model design is an optimal if not the only possible way for improving the structure of production systems and technological processes as well as for their control.