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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Manufacturing & Logistics

 This model simulates manufacturing & distribution supply chain in mainland China. There are
three production sites and fifteen DCs that order a random amounts of products from them
each 1-2 days.
 Each production site has a delivery vehicle fleet. If there are not enough products for a
shipment, a truck has to wait before the goods are produced. Production rateis influenced by
the number of staff.
 This model combines agent-based, discrete event, and system dynamics simulation methods.
Distributors, trucks, and manufacturing facilities are agents with custom behavior.
 Order processing, loading, and palletizing goods at the DCs are simulated with the discrete
event
 method. Production and hiring at the manufacturing sites are simulated with system
dynamics. The trucks move along real roads in GIS space.
 This model was developed for white paper Multimethod Simulation Modeling for Business
Applications:https://www.anylogic.com/resources/white-papers/multimethod-simulation-
modeling-for-business-applications/

Refer: Manufacturing & Logistics - Version 4

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Supply Chain Management

 A simple model of a supply chain consisting of a retailer, a wholesaler, and a factory.
Customers arrive to the retailer, demand a product, and take the currently available
items.
 The excess of demand over supply is backlogged. At the beginning of each day, the
retailer and the wholesaler review their inventory levels and decide how many items
to order. Similarly, the factory decides how many items to manufacture.
 All of them use a stationary policy. Cost is associated with ordering, manufacturing,
holding products, and having a backlog of orders (shortage).
 The output of the simulation includes the structured mean daily cost for all supply
chain elements, and the distribution of waiting times for customers to get their orders.
 The goal of the model is to find the inventory policy parameters for the supply chain
that result in minimum cost and minimum waiting times.
 The model includes a simulation experiment where you can set up the parameters
manually, and the automatic optimization experiment.

Refer: Supply Chain - Version 14

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Flexible Manufacturing Supply Chain

 The concept model of a supply chain where each producer makes some finished
product from raw material supplied by another producer.
 The production stops when the amount of finished product at the producer's
warehouse reaches a certain threshold, and similarly, raw material is ordered when
its present amount (+ on order amount) falls lower than ordering threshold.
 A producer (and the end consumer as well) may choose between several alternative
suppliers.
 The choice is made depending on capacities of the suppliers and its current orders.
 Therefore, the supply chain participants may be considered as agents with a certain
level intelligence.

Refer: Flexible Manufacturing Supply Chain - Version 6

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Supply Chain and Product Diffusion

 In this model of a supply chain the System Dynamics and Agent Based approaches
work together. The product is being sold to consumers who are sensitive to advertizing
as well as to word of mouth.
 The market part of the model is done using System Dynamics approach, namely is
based on Bass Diffusion model.
 The product is delivered by a supply chain that is modeled by several active
components - agents (Retailer, Wholesaler and Factory) each maintaining a certain
inventory management policy.
 The manufacturing process in Factory agent is in turn modeled by a simple System
Dynamics diagram where manufacturing rate is controlled by the factory policy.
 The interface between the market and the supply chain is implemented this way: the
SD model exposes its Demand stock to the retailer and the retailer "moves" consumers
from the Demand stock to Users stock as it supplies the product.

Refer: Supply Chain and Product Diffusion - Version 8

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Warehouse Transportation – Conveyor and Forklift

 This simple model demonstrates how to use the MoveByTransporter flowchart block
to simulate transportation processes performed by AGVs, forklifts, trolleys and other
transporters.
 In the model, AGVs take colored items from three feeding conveyors and transport
them to output conveyors of a corresponding color.
 AGVs automatically find the shortest routes within the network. Loading and
unloading processes are simulated with simple delays that are set in the
MoveByTransporter block.

Refer: MoveByTransporter - Version 4

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Rack System with AGV

 This simple model of facility storage demonstrates how logic of Transporter can be
used to put items on pallet racks and retrieve them later.
 In the model AGVs take boxes from conveyor and deliver them to the rack cells that
were reserved for them. When storage capacity comes to its maximum, a group of
boxes is retrieved and delivered to truck by AGV .
 The simulation is considered as Discrete Event Simulation.

Refer: Rack System with AGV - Version 3

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Solar Panel Production Line

 In this model solar cells are assembled by the stringer machine and placed on a
specially prepared glass by the layup system.
 Next, the glass module with solar cells is conveyed through a sequence of processing,
assembly, and quality assurance stations, transforming it into solar panel. Finished
solar panels are gathered into batches and taken away by forklift.
 The model focuses on the different uses of the Station markup elements that can be
included in a conveyor network built with the Material Handling Library. Simple
automatic processing is simulated by delays for defined periods of time. Manual
operations are represented by stations with the bound resources.
 The complicated behavior of the inline machines (e.g. framing station, laminator) are
built using state charts.

Refer: Solar panel production line - Version 4

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Steel Converter Process

 The model of steel converter process focuses on crane management algorithm that
should minimize discontinuities in the Continuous Casting Machines (CCM) operation.
 The critical timing is imposed by the CCMs and additional constrains come from the
steel converters and the ladle transportation vehicles.
 The algorithm implemented in the model is based on stochastic crane management
and is known to be not optimal in some configurations.
 The number of cranes matters too: it should correspond to the number of other
elements in the system for good productivity.
 The model is highly scalable: it can work with any number of CCMs, converters, cranes,
etc. and any distance, timing and capacity parameters.

Refer: Steel Converter Process - Version 12

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Job Shop

 This model simulates the manufacturing and shipping process in a small job shop.
 Raw material is delivered to the receiving dock, which is placed into storage until
processing occurs at the CNC machine.
 Finished parts are palletized, and then moved to storage at the shipping dock, until
the completed pallets can be loaded on a truck.
 The user can control certain model parameters, like process times and labor
quantities,via the input boxes.
 A metrics page charts labor utilization, as well as operating costs as a function of the
user's chosen operating scheme.

Refer: Job Shop - Version 9

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Module: Multi-Agents System
Case Studies: Modelling of Manufacturing Applications using Anylogic

Chocolate Production

Refer: Chocolate Production - Version 11

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