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State-Based Simulation Mechanism for Facilitating Project Schedule Updating
Discrete-event simulation (DES) has long been used as a management tool to analyze and study construction processes. Project scheduling is one of its useful applications in construction domain. By simulating the behavior of a production system over time, the DES is able to reproduce the process of how jobs and resources interact with each other. A schedule can then be viewed a record of this artificial history. However, simulation-based scheduling is, more often than not, limited to create the initial schedules. The problem of how to update project schedule based on the current progress is rarely addressed in construction simulation research. This paper presents a state-based simulation approach that can facilitate project schedule updating by (1) reading the starting time (i.e. the point of time to update the schedule); (2) resuming the work load of production system at this time and running from there; and (3) updating the new schedule (from simulation) based on the As-Built project progress. An illustration example is used to illustrate how the new modeling approach is used to perform schedule updating and its benefits are discussed as well.
State-Based Simulation Mechanism for Facilitating Project Schedule Updating
Discrete-event simulation (DES) has long been used as a management tool to analyze and study construction processes. Project scheduling is one of its useful applications in construction domain. By simulating the behavior of a production system over time, the DES is able to reproduce the process of how jobs and resources interact with each other. A schedule can then be viewed a record of this artificial history. However, simulation-based scheduling is, more often than not, limited to create the initial schedules. The problem of how to update project schedule based on the current progress is rarely addressed in construction simulation research. This paper presents a state-based simulation approach that can facilitate project schedule updating by (1) reading the starting time (i.e. the point of time to update the schedule); (2) resuming the work load of production system at this time and running from there; and (3) updating the new schedule (from simulation) based on the As-Built project progress. An illustration example is used to illustrate how the new modeling approach is used to perform schedule updating and its benefits are discussed as well.
State-Based Simulation Mechanism for Facilitating Project Schedule Updating
Hu, Di (author) / Mohamed, Yasser (author)
Construction Research Congress 2010 ; 2010 ; Banff, Alberta, Canada
Construction Research Congress 2010 ; 369-378
2010-05-04
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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