Chemicals manufacturing process simulation
- Project name: Chemicals manufacturing process simulation
- Class: 4IT496 Simulation of Systems (WS 2015/2016)
- Author: Dinara Mansurova
- Model type: Discrete-Event Simulation
- Software used: Simprocess
Introduction
The simulation shows how pharmaceutical companies' manufacturing process is held. In this case manufacturing process is a chemical batch production process which has shared resources. There are two basic systems included: Ordering system and Production systems. The first one generates orders of chemicals to be produced with different demands on a production. As this simulation is for educational purposes, I have decided to simplify the model to 2 types of drugs produced. The production system is assigning reactors to a particular order and processing it. We have shared resources and one of the main shared resource is a reactor. One reactor processing one order. Once an order is received we align each per order and then production begins, which include several steps as adding water, heating water, adding particles, stiring and draining. After all production steps we release the reactor for the next order.
Problem definition
This model explores how to solve resource allocation problem.
We need to process 100 orders (60 orders for drug A and 40 for drug B) in a month. Reactors works 12 hours a day. We obtain 5 reactors, we can add water to two reactors simultaneously and heat two reactors at a time.
Drug A: adding water 2 hours, heating 3 hours, adding particles 1 hour, stiring 3 hours and draining 3 hours
Drug B: adding water 1 hour, heating 2 hours, adding paticles 30 min, stiring 5 hours and draining 3 hours
Do we need an additional reactor to acomplish this task?
Method
Tool to be used - Simprocess
Model
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Results
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Conclusion
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Code
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