Increasing the power and value of manufacturing simulation via collaboration with other analytical tools (panel session): a panel discussion

The objective of this panel session is to describe how a when manufacturing simulation practitioners should add the value of projects by interfacing simulation analys with other analyses such as optimization, layout/mater flow, scheduling, robotic, and queuing. The panelists w discuss how each analytical tool adds value to the discr event manufacturing simulation, when in the life cycle of project it should be brought in, what are the ma advantages and disadvantages of bringing in the additio tools, managing and selling collaborative analyses proje and training requirements for collaborative analyses.