A Comparative Simulation of Organizational Strategies in Production Cells Based on Agent Model

Abstract:

In order to simulate the impact of organizational strategy on production cell, agent model of workers was developed and integrated into the production model. An agent-based human-machine collabrative simulation method for production cells was proposed. Structure and modeling steps of the simulation were studied, the proposed simulation method was applied in a motorcycle engine box production cell, and the system performance under the two different organizational strategies ‘specialized division of labor’ and ‘multi-skill team’ was compared. The results indicate that the agent-based simulation method can simulate the organizational strategy in production cells, and provide a new way to study affecting mechanism of different organizational strategies on prodution cells.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 186)
• Pages: 489-493
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.186.489
• Online since: January 2011
• Authors: Xiao Dong Zhang, Tian Yu, Xun De Xie, Dong Fang Zhao
• Keywords: Agent-Based Simulation, Organizational Strategy, Production Cell

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