Roche, U. La, "System Dynamics Analysis, a Prototyping Tool for Production System Design", 1992
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Streamlining a production process shortening leadtimes and sqeezing inventories and cost are the highlights of any company restructuring. Efficient factory planning is in the end usually good logistic system design. But to master the many concurrent problems of an efficient logistic system design in a company it either takes time to digest all the local improvements or one needs an integrative method to structure these intertwined problems.Applying SDA opens the second method, which consistently proved to be faster and more efficient. This also includes the problem of proper embedding the MRP-system. Analysis of the process-chains of an important machine-tool production including sales and supply is reported as an illustrative exemple.