자동차 금형 생산공정의 물류분석

Performance Analysis of a Die FAbrication Process In Automotive Production

Tool shop of the‘D’Motor Co.(DMC) fabricates dies for producing automotive press panels. In order to increase the production capacity of the tool shop, DMC established an FMS that consists of high-speed machines and a CMM at the tool shop in 1997. Due to the difference in machine capability among the existing machines and the new FMS it is needed to find an optimal way of allocating workloads among machines to maximize the production. In a way to solve this, we model the die fabrication process of the tool shop and analyze its performance by computer simulation. In this study, we at first identify the bottleneck processes of the die fabrication process under the current operation policy. Then, we derive some alternative operating policies applicable to the tool shop, and analyze the optimal operation policy by comparing the performance of the tool shop following each alternative policy.