Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Source : International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Volume 17, Number 3, p.340 – 364 (2017)
Keywords : job shop; analytic hierarchy process; AHP; discrete event simulation; ARENA; priority dispatching rules; PDRs.
Campus : Bengaluru, Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Department : Mechanical Engineering
Year : 2017
Abstract : In this paper, a detailed study has been made at an auto ancillary unit to prioritise the jobs in a press shop which accommodates 170 types of jobs and 27 press machines with different order quantities. The main objective of this work is to develop a simulation model of the press shop to study the performance measures such as lead-time, WIP, machine utilisation, and queue-related statistics and to develop an effective job priority system which improves the performance measures of the press shop. A novel analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based priority dispatching rule is presented in this study by assigning weights to the factors such as due date, production volume and processing time. The proposed AHP-based priority rule is implemented in the proposed simulation model and it is found to be effective in improving the most of the performance measures considered in this study.
Cite this Research Publication : Thenarasu, .Rameshkumar, K., and Prakash Marimuthu K., “Simulation modelling and development of analytic hierarchy process-based priority dispatching rule for a dynamic press shop”, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, vol. 17, pp. 340 – 364, 2017.