Simulação baseada em agentes para uma cadeia de suprimentos com impressão 3D: uma análise comparativa utilizando AnyLogic

Abstract

Agent-based simulation and 3D printing are examples of new technologies that can modify industries relationships with customers, employees, or the many existing supply chains. The objective of this work was, from this two technologies, simulate and compare through computational modeling (AnyLogic), the behavior of the supply chain of a traditional manufacture with distributors, clients and 3D print. This is an applied research, considering that a computer program was created on the knowledge acquired in an exploratory way, through a bibliographical research, aiming at the most recent and relevant studies in the area of the supply chain, 3D printing and multiagent systems. With the results obtained from this simulation, some possible scenarios of behavior of this chain were tested, and because it was not possible to use actual data from the tested supply chain, it can not be said whether inserting 3D printing into a traditional supply chain is feasible or not.