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Literature Review of Commercial Discrete-Event Simulation Packages

상용 이산사건 시뮬레이터 패키지들에 대한 선행연구 분석

  • Received : 2022.12.13
  • Accepted : 2023.02.15
  • Published : 2023.03.31
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Abstract

Smart factory environments and digital twin environments are established, and today's factories accumulate vast amounts of production data and are managed in real time as visualized results suitable for user convenience. Production simulation techniques are in the spotlight as a way to prevent delays in delivery and predict factory volatility in situations where production schedule planning becomes difficult due to the diversification of production products. With the development of the digital twin environment, new packages are developed and functions of existing packages are updated, making it difficult for users to make decisions on which packages to use to develop simulations. Therefore, in this study, the concept of Discrete Event Simulation (DES) performed based on discrete events is defined, and the characteristics of various simulation packages were compared and analyzed. To this end, studies that solved real problems using discrete event simulation software for 10 years were analyzed, and three types of software used by the majority were identified. In addition, each package was classified by simulation technique, type of industry, subject of simulation, country of use, etc., and analysis results on the characteristics and usage of DES software were provided. The results of this study provide a basis for selection to companies and users who have difficulty in selecting discrete event simulation package in the future, and it is judged that they will be used as basic data.

스마트 팩토리 환경과 디지털 트윈 환경이 구축되며 요즘의 공장은 방대한 생산 데이터를 축적하고 공정 현황에 대해 실시간으로 사용자 편의에 맞는 시각화된 결과물로 관리되고 있다. 생산 제품의 다변화에 따른 공정의 복잡도가 증대되어 생산일정 계획이 어려워지고, 자동화 설비가 구축되는 상황에서 납기 지연을 예방하고, 공장의 변동성에 대한 사전 예측을 위한 방안으로 생산 시뮬레이션 기법이 각광받고 있다. 디지털 트윈 환경의 발전과 함께 신규 패키지가 개발되고 기존 패키지들의 기능 업데이트가 됨에 따라 상용 제품별 특성이나 장단점이 명확히 정의되지 않아 사용자들이 어떠한 패키지를 활용하여 시뮬레이션 개발을 진행하는 지에 대한 의사결정이 어려운 상황이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 이산적으로 발생되는 사건을 기반으로 수행하는 이산사건 시뮬레이션(DES, Discrete Event Simulation)의 개념을 정의하고, 다양한 시뮬레이션 패키지에 대한 특성을 비교 분석하고자 한다. 이를 위해 10년간 이산사건 시뮬레이션 패키지를 사용하여 실제 문제를 해결한 연구들을 분석하였고, 사용 빈도가 높은 패키지 세 가지를 도출하였다. 또한, 각 패키지들의 시뮬레이션 기법, 주요 업종, 시뮬레이션을 수행한 대상, 사용한 국가 등으로 분류하여 DES 소프트웨어의 특성과 사용 현황에 대한 분석을 진행하였다. 본 연구 결과는 추후 이산사건 시뮬레이션 패키지 선택에 어려움을 겪는 기업과 사용자에게 선택의 기반을 제공하며 기초자료로 사용될 것으로 판단한다.

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Acknowledgement

본 과제(결과물)는 2022년도 교육부의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원을 받아 수행된 지자체-대학 협력기반 지역혁신 사업의 결과입니다(2021RIS-003).

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