Previously analysed processes in the production network
including production, quality and transportation processes are
converted into a discrete-event simulation, implementing the
across-site value stream including all relevant quality control
loops. For designing alternative inspection strategies, quality
control processes are modelled after each potential production
process step, taking the restrictions coming out of the
systematization presented in Figure 3 into account. This way,
alternative strategies and different process configurations can
be dynamically evaluated for each individual site.
In order to model the defined individual target systems of
all actors in the production network (company internal sites as
well as external partners), the defined target system is
extended to suppliers and customers and implemented into a
software-based agent structure as individual objective
functions. Hence, the individual sites can evaluate the
performance indicators for each quality strategy with respect
to their individual targets. Thus, the influences of individual