Title :
Design of manufacturing plant layouts with queueing effects
Author :
Benjaafar, Salifallah
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Leuven
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4300-X
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.1998.676389
