What’s keeping me busy…
I haven’t had as much spare time as I wanted to post in the blog 
One of the things responsible for that was my Simulation and Production Management project.
The task of my group (Amílcar Pereira, Simão Ribeiro and me) was to simulate in Rockwell Arena 10 an enterprise in all his manufacturing steps and study the best affectation algorithm for parallel machines.
Just a simple example for those who don’t know Arena, two sample videos of my project. The first one is the logical model with all the Arena entities.
The second is the physical model with a little bit of animation (the texts in the videos are in Portuguese).
I think Arena is a powerful simulation tool but to get the hang of it takes a while. If you had any contact with simulation tools tell me how was your experience.
Videos in high resolution here: logical model and physical model.
Hi Nuno, Simao and Amilcar,
I Congratulate the very good level that you archive in Simulation.
Let me know if you receive suggestions for easier ways to make systems simulations
Luis
Hi. nice work.
I am stdudent of Mechanical Enginner in ISEL.
Since February i have been working with Arena Simulation, in my school few students know working with this program.
I would like know, how put schedule in Create box? I tried in Time Patterns but unlucky not solve my problem. because at;
week 1
mondays – values 286
wednesday – value 286
friday – value 286
week 2
tuesday – value 286
thursday – value 286
after cyclic:
week 1
week 2
week 1
week 2
….
Best Regards
Bruno Amaral
@Bruno Amaral
Hello Bruno!
I sent you an email answering your question.
Glad I can help, best regards.
i am an industrial engineering student. i am trying to simulate a robotic cell. all parts are flowshop passing through all machines however they have different loading/unloading and processing times. my problem is that the robot arm is to follow a specific ‘predefined’ cycle rather than have the entity call for the transporter and shift the part to the next station. i want to simulate different robot cycles to compare them. i have been working with arena 10 (student version) for 2 months now, self-taught myself arena through the examples and Arena reference book, however i cannot solve my problem and i cannot find help at my school. if u have any ideas or tips for me that would be great.
thank you in advance
best regards,
BUZZ
@Buzz
to call a transporter i usualy use the two box, first Request linked with Transporter, in Transporter you define which next station.
I work in the modelling and simulation field and Arena is very nice. I love how you can use VBA to interface with other programs for post processing of data. The only downside of Arena is that it is limited to only Discrete Even Simulation. I have recently started using a new software called AnyLogic (www.xjtek.com). It can model Discrete Event Simulation, Systems dynamics, agent based modeling, or a mixture of any of the three. Very powerful and is built in JAVA, so practically anyone can use it, unlike Arena which is only on windows platforms. I suggest you check it out and at least give it a try. With the full license, you can export your model as an applet and send it out to people (clients in my case) to use as a tool. Very cool product. Unfortunately there is a slight learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, the software is awesome.
I wanted to make a model that have multiple entities (5)/ components that will be combine to make multiple products (3). For example if product1 components are E1, E2, E3, product2 component are E1, E3, E5 product2 component are E2, E4, E5. After all component goes thru their sequence of machining processes. they finally must be assembly to producce the various products. How must I go about to create the assembling of the various com ponent to produce the product?
Yhank you
Hi Bruno
The case is this,there are 5 components E1, E2, E3, E4, and E5. There are also 5 stations, station1 to station4 are machining stations and station5 is the “Assembly” station. All components have differents arrival times and different machining times at the machining stations (1-4). when the maching processes are finished all components must be route to station5 to be assembly to produce three(3) different products. All three products have different assembly time.
Prod.1 will consist of E1, E2, E3.
Prod.2 will consist of E1, E3, E5.
Prod.3 will consist of E2, E4, E5.
My main Question is How can I combine, batch or match these components in order to assembly the products. I hope my question is clear so that you may understand.
Thank you again