A universal framework for lean design and control of automated material handling systems

Author

Mashaei, Maziar ; Lennartson, Bengt

Author_Institution

Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden

fYear

2012

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Lean design and control of an automated material handling system is investigated in this study. A universal framework for modeling and analysis of different types of material handling mechanisms is introduced to obtain a minimum number of resources in a system design and fulfill a desired throughput. This framework is developed in a discrete event simulation environment and applied to a case study based on a real pallet system technology. The minimal design of the pallet system is realized by devising the system universal model.

Keywords

design engineering; discrete event simulation; lean production; materials handling equipment; palletising; discrete event simulation environment; material handling mechanism analysis; material handling mechanism modeling; pallet system technology; system design; system universal model; universal automated material handling system control framework; universal automated material handling system lean design framework; Automated material handling system; Discrete event simulation model; Lean design; Universal model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2012 IEEE 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Krakow

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4735-8

Electronic_ISBN

1946-0740

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2012.6489603

Filename

6489603