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Why lean needs simulation

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Charles R. Standridge,

Jon H. MarvelAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 1907 - 1913

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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Lean methods have become the standard approach to the resolution of design and operational issues in production and other systems. However, the lean approach has deficiencies. The deficiencies that simulation can address are presented, discussed and illustrated. These deficiencies include modeling and assessing the effects of variation, making use of all available data, validating the effects of proposed changes before implementation as well identifying other possible improvements, and assessing the interaction effects between system components. Various industrial applications are presented that show that simulation was required to successfully address operational issues that the lean approach failed to identify and could not resolve.

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December 2006

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L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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