Fig 1.
Scheme of slats manufacturing process.
Fig 2.
The research and experiments plan to determine the effectiveness of forecasting material loss.
Fig 3.
Factors contributing to material loss in the discussed process.
Fig 4.
Overview of the simulation model of two production lines created in FlexSim.
Fig 5.
Characteristics of the geometric dimensions of the input material for different sample sizes, taking into account in the simulation model.
Table 1.
Fitted distributions to empirical data for formatted input material.
Table 2.
Description of the distributions used in the study (in Table 1).
Fig 6.
Comparison of loss from a real process with loss received in the simulation model for material 1300 mm.
Fig 7.
Comparison of loss from a real process with loss received in the simulation model for material 1800 mm.
Table 3.
The values of the standard deviation of the geometric dimensions of the input and validation material.