Simulation in production processes: the case of Piacenza Textile industry

Abstract

Technological development has generated more challenges in the field of manufacturing industries, leading to the need of advanced production processes. FACTLOG project initiated the idea of Cognitive Digital Twins in order for these processes to be optimized. Vital component for the construction of a DT, is the Simulation model. This paper focuses on the case study of a Textile Industry, Piacenza, and the creation of a simulation model concerning a specific stage of its production process, weaving. The simulation is performed on Anaconda’s Spyder environment, by the use of Python programming language. The goal is to create a simulation model that takes under consideration components that can affect the levels of the production cost, and finally to calculate this cost for observation purposes and inspect its behavior in alternative simulation conditions.