A company's ability to respond to manufacturing conditions relies on the ability of its manufacturing organization.
Simulation helps by depicting the realistic representation of process, resources and work flow.
The basic steps in a simulation study are to formulate the problem, build a simulation model, run the model, and then analyze the output. Two examples of simulation that deal with the nature of change in a m.s. are Discrete and Continuous simulation. Discrete simulation is used when modeling a m.s. that changes at only distinct points in time. Continuous simulation is used when modeling a m.s. that is constantly changing. The application area of simulation for manufacturing is that it can be used for the analysis of complex and highly networked processes and for processes affected by a collection of permanently changing areas such as structural data, process cycles, machine data, batch size, and sequencing parameter.