DocumentCode
323935
Title
Design of manufacturing plant layouts with queueing effects
Author
Benjaafar, Salifallah
Author_Institution
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Volume
1
fYear
1998
fDate
16-20 May 1998
Firstpage
260
Abstract
We present a formulation of the plant layout problem where the objective is to minimize work-in-process. We show that the choice of layout has a direct impact on work-in-process accumulation, manufacturing lead time, achievable throughput rates, and required material handling capacity. More importantly, we show that layouts generated using a queueing-based model can be very different from those obtained using conventional layout procedures
Keywords
materials handling; operations research; optimisation; production control; queueing theory; lead time; manufacturing plant layouts; material handling capacity; production control; quadratic assignment problem; queueing model; throughput rates; work-in-process; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Costs; Electronic switching systems; Materials handling; Mechanical engineering; Network servers; Throughput; Time measurement; Virtual manufacturing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Leuven
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
0-7803-4300-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676389
Filename
676389
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