TY - GEN
T1 - Agent-Based Simulation for Indoor Manufacturing Environments---Evaluating the Effects of Spatialization
AU - Kern, Stefan
AU - Scholz, Johannes
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The paper elaborates on an Agent-based Modeling approach for an indoor manufacturing environment---in particular, a semiconductor production plant. In order to maintain a flexible production ``line'', there is no conveyor belt, and a mix of different products is present in the indoor environment. With the integration of Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing principles, production assets may be transported by autonomous robots in the near future. The optimization of manufacturing processes is challenging and computationally hard. Thus, simulation methods are used to optimize manufacturing plants and the processes. In contemporary literature, the effects of the spatial dimension with respect to the simulation of manufacturing processes is neglected. In this paper, we evaluate on the effects the spatial dimension in an Agent-based Model for indoor manufacturing environments. The Agent-based Model developed in this paper is utilized to simulate a manufacturing environment with the help of an artificial indoor space and a set of test data. Four simulation scenarios---with varying levels of spatial data usable---have been tested using Repast Simphony framework. The results reveal that different levels of available spatial information have an influence on the simulation results of indoor manufacturing environments and processes. First, the distances moved by the worker agents can be significantly reduced and the unproductive movements of worker agents (without production assets) can be decreased.
AB - The paper elaborates on an Agent-based Modeling approach for an indoor manufacturing environment---in particular, a semiconductor production plant. In order to maintain a flexible production ``line'', there is no conveyor belt, and a mix of different products is present in the indoor environment. With the integration of Industry 4.0 or Smart Manufacturing principles, production assets may be transported by autonomous robots in the near future. The optimization of manufacturing processes is challenging and computationally hard. Thus, simulation methods are used to optimize manufacturing plants and the processes. In contemporary literature, the effects of the spatial dimension with respect to the simulation of manufacturing processes is neglected. In this paper, we evaluate on the effects the spatial dimension in an Agent-based Model for indoor manufacturing environments. The Agent-based Model developed in this paper is utilized to simulate a manufacturing environment with the help of an artificial indoor space and a set of test data. Four simulation scenarios---with varying levels of spatial data usable---have been tested using Repast Simphony framework. The results reveal that different levels of available spatial information have an influence on the simulation results of indoor manufacturing environments and processes. First, the distances moved by the worker agents can be significantly reduced and the unproductive movements of worker agents (without production assets) can be decreased.
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Indoor geography
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - Smart manufacturing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065793791&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-14745-7_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-14745-7_17
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 9783030147440
T3 - Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
SP - 309
EP - 324
BT - Geospatial Technologies for Local and Regional Development - Proceedings of the 22nd AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science
A2 - Kyriakidis, Phaedon
A2 - Skarlatos, Dimitrios
A2 - Hadjimitsis, Diofantos
A2 - Mansourian, Ali
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
T2 - AGILE 2019
Y2 - 17 June 2019 through 22 June 2019
ER -