Affiliation: | Saginaw Division, General Motors Corporation, Saginaw, Michigan 48601, USA GMI Engineering & Management Institute, Flint, Michigan 48504, USA |
Abstract: | The quality of Management decision-making is greatly improved when a good animation of the manufacturing operation clearly shows how everything is going to work. This paper describes the use of one of the best current animation tools, namely Witness 7 from AT&T ISTEL, applied to the decision to modify a current operation. The paper describes how the simulation analysis played an important role in assuring that the management decision was correct. |