ADVANCED TUTORIAL -
SIMULATION-BASED SCHEDULING AND CONTROL
Brett A. Peters
Jeffrey S. Smith
James Curry
Cynthia LaJimodiere
Department of Industrial
Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843, U.S.A.
Glenn R. Drake
Systems Modeling Corporation
504 Beaver Street
Sewickley, Pennsylvania 15143, U.S.A.
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a simulation control system
developed by the Texas A&M Computer Aided Manufacturing
Laboratory (TAMCAM). This control system is a research tool that
TAMCAM uses to explore the advantages and disadvantages of
on-line simulation for process control. The simulation control
system is developed directly from information about the shop
floor stored in a relational database. Processing times and
fallout rates are also estimated directly from external data
sources. The system is implemented in Arena, Microsoft Access,
and Microsoft Visual C++. The advanced tutorial will demonstrate
the software tools described in this paper.