Lopez-Davalos, L., Liaqat, A., Hutabarat, W. orcid.org/0000-0001-7393-7695 et al. (2 more authors) (2018) Investigating rate increase in aerospace factory by simulation of material flow operations. In: Auer, M. and Langmann, R., (eds.) Smart Industry & Smart Education. International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, 21-23 Mar 2018, Düsseldorf, Germany. Springer , pp. 42-49. ISBN 978-3-319-95677-0
Abstract
The main challenge aerospace industries are facing in recent times has been triggered by the remarkable increase in commercial aircraft demand. To address this challenge, aircraft manufacturers need to explore ways to increase capacity and workflow through process optimisation and automation. This study focusses on the optimisation of component flow and inventory during the assembly of the A320 Family wings’ at Airbus (Broughton, UK) plant through Discrete Event Simulation (DES).
This research measured the likely impact of future changes in the wing assembly process, using simulation by: mapping of component flow from delivery to the point of use, simulation of current logistics scenario (AS-IS), simulation of future logistics scenarios (TO-BE) that include proposed changes for optimising flow and managing capacity surge, and testing and validation of mapping and simulation. The developed DES model demonstrated the impact of changes planned to be implemented by showing a considerable increase in production capacity growth, by achieving a target of 50% increase of aircraft rate/month within one year. It also highlighted the main problems causing blockages and other non-value activities in the process.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Auer M., Langmann R. (eds) Smart Industry & Smart Education. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Discrete Event Simulation; Aircraft manufacturing; Witness |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD CT1708245 ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING (THE) UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2019 09:32 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-319-95678-7_5 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147588 |