Performance Calculation of manufacturing systems

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.