Abstract
The lack of applied innovative tools, for improving the performance of the precast concrete products
manufacturing industry, has led the researchers in this paper to develop an Enterprise Simulation Precast
Concrete (ESPC) model, to improve the performance of the precast industry. As an initial stage, a
detailed layout for the precast concrete production processes is developed in order to understand the
relationships amongst the manufacturing processes in such industry. In addition, simulation methodology
is developed to analyse the precast manufacturing system and identify the resource bottlenecks. Heuristic
searching rule is developed in order to simulate the accommodation process of the produced items in a
temporary stockyard area.
The results indicated low utilisation of the used resources due to using only one curing area for storage
and retrieval processes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceeding for CIB-W78 25th International Conference, 15th – 17th July, Santiago, Chile. |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| Event | International Conference on Information Technology in Construction - Santiago, Chile Duration: 15 Jul 2008 → 17 Jul 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Information Technology in Construction |
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| Country/Territory | Chile |
| City | Santiago |
| Period | 15/07/08 → 17/07/08 |
Keywords
- Precast concrete products
- enterprise simulation model
- discrete event simulation modelling
- manhole
- manufacturing system
- heuristic searching rule