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Barriers to and driving forces for the implementation of manufacturing simulation in the Swedish foundry industry

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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The deregulation of the European electricity market has led to increasing electricity prices in Sweden, and prices are expected to raise even further, posing a major threat to the Swedish foundries. This study present results from a study of barriers to and driving forces for the use of manufacturing simulation and optimization methods at nine Swedish foundries. The method used is in-depth interviews and a questionnaire. The largest barriers were found to be: lack of information regarding what opportunities manufacturing simulation may gain, lack of time or other priorities, and lack of staff awareness. The largest driving forces were found to be: lowered production costs, faster production periods, and possible simulation of the daily production plan.
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    WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
    December 2006
    2429 pages
    ISBN:1424405017

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    • IIE: Institute of Industrial Engineers
    • ASA: American Statistical Association
    • IEICE ESS: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Engineering Sciences Society
    • IEEE-CS\DATC: The IEEE Computer Society
    • SIGSIM: ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling
    • NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
    • (SCS): The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
    • INFORMS-CS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences-College on Simulation

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    WSC06: Winter Simulation Conference 2006
    December 3 - 6, 2006
    California, Monterey

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    WSC '06 Paper Acceptance Rate 177 of 252 submissions, 70%;
    Overall Acceptance Rate 3,413 of 5,075 submissions, 67%

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