MBSE Tools, Inc. — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: N/A
MBSE Tools, Inc. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $100,000
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- N/A
- Solicitation
- 2017-NIST-SBIR-01
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- GA
- Period
- 2017-07-31 → 2018-01-30
Description
The vision is to provide decision-makers with effective, fast, and inexpensive analysis tools to answer "What-If" and "What-Should" questions about manufacturing systems. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a modeling methodology with widespread contemporary use in manufacturing, and our strategy is to start with VSM as a deployment beachhead for the eventual deployment of a more generic manufacturing system modeling and analysis tool. In Phase 1, we propose to add modeling rigor and computational analysis to VSM; our goal is to demonstrate the feasibility of using Value Stream Maps to answer routine value stream questions about throughput, capacity, cycle time, and inventory using automated generation of discrete-event simulation models. A Phase 1 demonstration will start from the VSM tool environments of Microsoft Visio and Excel, and automatically generate discrete-event simulation models in a COTS language and tool.