TY - GEN
T1 - AN Improvement in robustness of a system dynamics model for simulating cost of quality in manufacturing operations
AU - Elizondo-Noriega, Armando
AU - Beruvides, Mario G.
AU - Tiruvengadam, Naveen
AU - Guëmes-Castorena, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Management, 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The use of System Dynamics to model, understand, and predict the behavior of complex systems has grown steadily over the last two decades. One complex phenomenon that has received considerable attention of researchers in the System Dynamics discipline is the Economics of Quality, specifically the Cost of Quality, in manufacturing organizations. The Cost of Quality is a composite of various costs associated with activities concerning defect prevention, appraisal, and both internal and external failure. There are at least five different studies that model Cost of Quality in an organization via System Dynamics, and of them, Visawan and Tannock's model provides the most comprehensive description of a manufacturing facility. However, other studies on the Visawan-Tannock model have identified an inherent flaw in the model in that it accepts one large investment intervention toward defect prevention activities to attain six-sigma-levels of operations: An obviously unrealistic behavior. This study proposes a correction to this identified flaw through the addition of an extra module to the Visawan and Tannock's model that has been tested for compliance with the reported values in the literature.
AB - The use of System Dynamics to model, understand, and predict the behavior of complex systems has grown steadily over the last two decades. One complex phenomenon that has received considerable attention of researchers in the System Dynamics discipline is the Economics of Quality, specifically the Cost of Quality, in manufacturing organizations. The Cost of Quality is a composite of various costs associated with activities concerning defect prevention, appraisal, and both internal and external failure. There are at least five different studies that model Cost of Quality in an organization via System Dynamics, and of them, Visawan and Tannock's model provides the most comprehensive description of a manufacturing facility. However, other studies on the Visawan-Tannock model have identified an inherent flaw in the model in that it accepts one large investment intervention toward defect prevention activities to attain six-sigma-levels of operations: An obviously unrealistic behavior. This study proposes a correction to this identified flaw through the addition of an extra module to the Visawan and Tannock's model that has been tested for compliance with the reported values in the literature.
KW - Model correction
KW - Model improvement
KW - Simulation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086287341
T3 - 2019 International Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration: A Systems Approach to Engineering Management Solutions, ASEM 2019
BT - 2019 International Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration
A2 - Schott, E.
A2 - Keathley, H.
A2 - Krejci, C.
PB - American Society for Engineering Management
T2 - 2019 International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management and 40th Meeting Celebration: A Systems Approach to Engineering Management Solutions, ASEM 2019
Y2 - 23 October 2019 through 26 October 2019
ER -