Science and Technology Production
A heuristic simulation-based framework to improve the scheduling of blocks assembly and the production process in shipbuilding

Book Chapter

Authorship
N. Basan ; Victoria Achkar ; MENDEZ, CARLOS ALBERTO ; A. Garcia del Valle
Date
2017
Publishing House and Editing Place
IEEE
Book
Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 3218-3229)
IEEE
ISBN
978-1-5386-3428-8
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The strong global competition in theshipbuilding market forces the shipyards to focus their efforts in optimizingtheir system resources. Therefore, the development of efficient medium-term andshort-term operation strategies in the shipyard block assembly process isbecoming a potential tool to be more competitive. This paper introduces aheuristic simulation-based approach to address the scheduling problem forshipbuilding in a real-world multi-stage production system. The main goal is tominimize ... The strong global competition in theshipbuilding market forces the shipyards to focus their efforts in optimizingtheir system resources. Therefore, the development of efficient medium-term andshort-term operation strategies in the shipyard block assembly process isbecoming a potential tool to be more competitive. This paper introduces aheuristic simulation-based approach to address the scheduling problem forshipbuilding in a real-world multi-stage production system. The main goal is tominimize the total production and assembly time of the shipbuilding process(makespan) applying different types of heuristic rules in an advancedsimulation framework. The proposed simulation model allows evaluating theeffective production of a large amount of blocks and sub-blocks, whilesatisfying a large set of hard constraints. Uncertain alternative scenarios aretested and computational statistics are deeply analyzed.
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Key Words
AstilleroOptimizacionSimulacion