3. Design of discontinuous workshops
3.1 Introduction to design and remodeling
The problem of designing batch plants is a major industrial issue, and forms part of a series of decisions ranging from the definition of the company's strategic choices to the optimization of production (figure 9 ). Increasingly, the current economic context is making the empiricist approach to workshop design, which in many cases led to over-equipment, untenable.
The aim of design is to determine the number and dimensions of the equipment required for each of the unit operations involved in the manufacturing processes of the various products, in order to ensure a given level of production, while...
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ARENA (Modeling Corporation) provides a library of predefined, fairly simple objects, which the user can then use to build his or her own model, giving great flexibility. The resulting simulator can be coupled with external modules written in C or FORTRAN.
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