pronounced when a factory uses group technology manufacturing cells as opposed to a functional or process layout of a job shop …. This paper describes how activity-based costing (ABC) concepts can be integrated into a discrete-event simulation model of … a U-shaped manufacturing cell producing a part family with four members. The simulation model generates detailed Bills …

Purpose: This research, by using the SIMIO simulation platform, provides a quantitative and comparative analysis of how … garment factories to optimize their production lines. Design/methodology/approach: The SIMIO simulation platform was employed … in the research and comparisons were made of the simulation test results about the four popular cellular manufacturing …

-event simulation model was developed to investigate the effectiveness of a reliability plan focusing on the most critical production … machines in improving the performance level as an alternative to increasing the reliability of all machines. Four machine … criticality policies are examined in the simulation experiments. Findings: The results of this experimental study indicated that …