Abstract:
Manufacturing systems are becoming more and more complex therefore different
methods and approaches are used to understand and analyze their behavior in order
have insights about their natural tendencies and gain the ability to understand, analyze
and evaluate their performance. « Factory Physics® » -a systematic description of the
underlying behavior of manufacturing systems as described by the authors Wallace J.
Hopp and Mark L. Spearman- is one of the most complete approaches used to
understand manufacturing systems.
The main goal of this project is to develop a desktop application that includes most of
the equations and mathematical models described in the « Factory Physics® » book,
them in a systematic approach use it to calculate and perform an extensive analysis of
manufacturing system performance.
