Case Study – Swoosh Bicycle Factory
Jul 5th, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Flexsim, Manufacturing, Process ImprovementIntroduction
An engineering company needed to more fully understand the workings of a bicycle factory system. Flexsim created a simulation model for them of an imaginary bicycle factory, Swoosh, which works very similarly to existing factories.
The Problem
The system has many potential bottleneck points where excess parts can queue up.There are many machines that produce parts [...]