Abstract
The view on factory modelling presented in this paper is that there is a need for a family of design tools which can be used to support a methodology which will result in the design and improvement of performance of factories, achieved in a satisfactory timescale, at acceptable cost, and yielding effective results.
The methodology embraces issues which range from the initial establishment of business strategy and its interactions with the manufacturing strategy and financial strategy models of a business through the use of approximate modelling methods which are capable of rapid expansion in detail, to the realisation of dynamic outputs as an important viewpoint. The process can be extended down the modelling range by offering interfaces to lower level tools, many of which are already available.
In the authors’ view the methodology and the tools it supports form a key business process technology.
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Popplewell, K., Bell, R. (1995). A Comprehensive Methodology for Factory Modelling. In: Browne, J., O’Sullivan, D. (eds) Re-engineering the Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34876-6_22
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