Conceptual Platform for Basic Waterfall Manufacturing System Using Simulink with Lean- Agile Measurement Criteria

This paper forms part I of two-part series that present the full path for constructing a Lean-Agile platform using Simulink and test the different criteria of such manufacturing systems. management of manufacturing systems is one of the main rules in engineering in order to reduce the waste (lean) and to fulfill the changing requirements of the market (agile). This paper describes the process of construction of the basic waterfall platform using Matlab/Simulink, and to develop the Matlab program that facilitates the input process of constants and variables into the model and then to show the results. this platform will mimic the manufacturing system of motorcycle engine that takes six parts as input and outputs four different models, Matlab/Simulink is used to construct the platform, and the library of Simscape used to model the discrete (not continuous) behavior of the system. Waterfall platform has been constructed. and simulated with the specific constants and variables from an excel file. Showing the results of workers-usage, over-processing, machine-usage,queue-usage. It shows the orders done with time of simulation, illustrating and indication of lean and agility of the proposed system. Different figures were generated and introduced to show various measuring criteria that evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The different measurement criteria drawn using a second Matlab program developed specially for this purpose. Index Terms— Lean, agile, Leagile, manufacturing system, workshop.