An emulation-based execution control system evaluation tool Application to a furniture manufacturing group
Résumé
Changing the execution control system could have a significant impact on a manufacturing company performance. Indeed, the strongly competitive context does not enable any error, which reinforces the need for a detailed a priori improvement analysis. Our proposition relies on a discrete-event simulation architecture useful to evaluate different manufacturing control systems. This enables to run the control system connected with a representative virtual shop floor in order to evaluate its performances. This tool enables to validate and compare several control systems, with more or less distribution of decision power. An industrial case study is presented, based on a French furniture manufacturer, in order to validate the implementation of a distributed control system.