Title: A holistic approach to manufacturing systems modelling

Authors: Dursun Delen

Addresses: Management Science and Information Systems, William S. Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University, 700 North Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74106, USA

Abstract: The success (or mere survival) of today|s enterprises depends on their managers making correct decisions to rapidly align organisational processes toward meeting and exceeding ever-changing needs and wants of the customer. In order to be successful managers need integrated information systems capable of supporting them throughout the decision-making lifecycle. These systems should be capable of using a wide variety of models along with the most current data and information stored in distributed locations, managed as critical organisational assets. This paper presents a holistic approach to such a manufacturing systems-modelling paradigm using a structured description capture method, called IDEF0.

Keywords: manufacturing systems; IDEF0; integrated modelling; decision support systems; DSS; model reusability; model utility; manufacturing modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2009.025827

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2009 Vol.5 No.1, pp.54 - 61

Published online: 24 May 2009 *

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