Journal of Electronics ManufacturingVol. 04, No. 02, pp. 89-99 (1994) PAPERSNo AccessAn intelligent decision support environment for PCB assemblyCHONG CHIN SOON, ROBERT DE SOUZA and ANIRUDHA SENCHONG CHIN SOONGintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore Search for more papers by this author , ROBERT DE SOUZASchool of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Search for more papers by this author and ANIRUDHA SENGintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore Search for more papers by this author https://doi.org/10.1142/S0960313194000110Cited by:1 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractAn intelligent integrated environment that provides decision support for printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is presented. This simulation-based decision support system enables manufacturing engineers, with little or no simulation experience, to exploit this technology fully for design and management of PCB assembly lines. PCB lines are selected for their simplicity in representation but stochasticity in nature of product demand and change. Within the environment is the capability to design graphically simulation models mapped to the real system, to define desired production targets, to execute a base language model and to generate results that can be intelligently analysed and presented for remedial action. A case example is also presented.Keywords:PCBassemblysimulationSIMANintelligent FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited By 1INTELLIGENT SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ASSEMBLYSK AHAD ALI, ROBERT DE SOUZA and ARUN KUMAR7 April 2012 | Journal of Electronics Manufacturing, Vol. 09, No. 04 Recommended Vol. 04, No. 02 Metrics History Received 1 March 1994 Accepted 1 April 1994 KeywordsPCBassemblysimulationSIMANintelligentPDF download