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This paper presenting an improvement made on material handling system in automotive assembly line in order to investigate the changes or influences that affect the assembly line. Some issues from a case study arose where the current transportation took a long time to supply material at assembly line and a risk of damaging the parts is high. Thus, an improvement is done by changing the current transport equipment into AGV and the storage equipment is changed into semi-automatic pick-to-light system. A method of discrete-event simulation using Delmia Quest software is applied. Based on the simulation result, the total production output increase almost 3 folds from the current output factory can produce. It’s concluded that a combined changes give large influences to the manufacturing system. A part of that, Delmia Quest is a useful software to enable decision-making process and improve system effectively without possibility destroying the elements.
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First of all, thanks to Allah for allowing us to finish this paper. We would like to thank Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka for giving us the opportunity to develop this study. Special thanks to research grant FRGS/1/2015/TK03/FKP/02/F00277 for funding the research. We also want to thank engineers from Mawea Industries Sdn. Bhd. for support and guide us to conduct a simulation in Delmia Quest software.
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Saffar, S., Jamaludin, Z., Jafar, F.A. (2017). Improving Material Handling System Performance in Automotive Assembly Line Using Delmia Quest Simulation. In: Mohamed Ali, M., Wahid, H., Mohd Subha, N., Sahlan, S., Md. Yunus, M., Wahap, A. (eds) Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems. AsiaSim 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 751. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6463-0_40
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