Swee Leong

TL;DR: SMM takes chosen sustainability indicators into consideration and is based on VSM, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Discrete Event Simulation (DES), and the main phases of SMM include goal definition, identification of the sustainability indicators, and modeling the current and future state process maps.

TL;DR: The results of this implementation of the Core Manufacturing Simulation Data information model indicate a good possibility to extend CMSD to also support flow shops, as well as to validate the structures in CMSD and to gather requirements for future enhancements.

TL;DR: Interface standards could improve the accessibility of this technology by helping to reduce the expenses associated with acquisition and deployment, minimize model development time and costs, and provide new types of simulation functionality that are not available today.

TL;DR: A method for identifying what aspects of a manufacturing system should be addressed to respond to changing strategic goals and a comprehensive set of performance challenges can be identified.

TL;DR: A case study is presented to show how Discrete Event Simulation can be utilized to generate requirements specification for manufacturing systems in the early stages of the design phase, and the potential use of utilizing DES in combination with LCA data to generate requirement specification for designing sustainable manufacturing systems.