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Summary

This research focuses on developing a data driven simulation tool of a flexible manufacturing system at WILA for the goal of aiding in process analysis and improvement decisions. WILA B.V. is a manufacturer of press brake tooling and tool holding. At their production facility in Lochem, toolholder parts are produced on two flexible manufacturing systems. These systems cope with a lot of interruptions which are hard to assess using the current method for performance measuring. By combining this faulty process with the ambition to create a digital factory, the idea arose to create a simulation tool for the given process as a way to assess the performance of the system in more detail. Through means of a literature review, knowledge was gathered on the subject of simulation studies. Using the found frameworks during this review, a methodology was set up to create this data driven simulation tool of the given flexible manufacturing systems. During this research this methodology was carried out fully to eventually create, verify and validate a data driven simulation tool of the given flexible manufacturing systems.