자동차 차체공장의 공간/물류 통합 분석 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구

The core competency of a manufacturing company is the ability of “Front-Loading”, the ability of minimizing the cost incurred after producing products and the ability of minimizing the change of production process under change of products through putting as many jobs in prior to the mass production as possible. One way for achieving such paradigm is designing the layout of factory and conducting the material flow analysis on the basis of the layout for optimization of material flow through selecting the optimized alternative. However, in real industries, workers are planning the design of layout and material flow under their empirical knowledge. Problems in such planning are that the plan is lack of reliability and that it is hard to be accepted by the other department when they have disagreements of opinion since the plan is hard to be said that it is objective. In this research, the modeling-and-simulation-based material flow analysis is conducted and derived the optimized alternative through what-if alternative analysis for capturing objectivity and for overcoming problems mentioned ahead, and proposed an integrated area/material-flow analysis system for achieving the manufacturing front-loading.