Simulation and optimization of industrial production lines

Simulation and optimization techniques are the pillars of for the Virtual Commissioning of modern digital factories. In particular, industrial production lines are complex systems formed by a set of machines that have several cross-dependencies (i. e., the production efficiency of a machine impact deeply performance figures of the others and affects the whole line productivity). The simulation and optimization of production lines is an integrated approach that allows finding efficiently optimized production parameters. This paper presents an example of application of the simulation to the virtual design and optimization of an industrial production line.