Estimation of overall equipment effectiveness using simulation programme

Abstract

A queuing system of the M/M/1/N type with cyclic failure-free and repair times and cyclic defective production is used as a model of a single machine production system. Production tasks arrive according to an exponential process and are served with normally disturbed processing time. Successive working (failure-free) times, repair times and defect-free production have exponential distributions. Defective products can be recirculated and back to the production line according to a Bernoulli distributions. The objective is to evaluate effectiveness of the production system using Overall Equipment Effectiveness before and after introducing improvement initiatives.