The advent of modern digital technologies offers new opportunities to improve the performance of manufacturing systems from design to monitoring and control during operation.At the same time, the recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragility of all global supply chains and manufacturing systems.In this paper, a simulation-based framework, exploiting the benefits of the digital model concept, is proposed.
It aims at: (1) supporting manufacturing design to effectively start a new business, (2) Campman assessing the resilience of a manufacturing system in the face of disruptions, (3) evaluating the goodness of possible strategies to deal with COVID-like crises.The validity of the proposed framework is successfully demonstrated through a real-life case study, referring to the wood sector.The results show that a lack of system preparedness can lead to productivity reductions of up to 31.
8%.At the same time, having the ability to react to unexpected Lunch Boxes events can limit damage and increase productivity by 26% compared to not reacting.