Material Handling Resource Utilization Simulation Study for Stamping Plant

Author

Williams, Edward J. ; Ulgen, Onur M. ; Bailiff, Sheldon ; Lote, Ravindra

Author_Institution

Ind. & Manuf. Syst. Eng., Michigan Univ., Dearborn, MI

fYear

2006

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1940

Lastpage

1945

Abstract

This paper describes the application of dynamic simulation to evaluate material handling resource utilization for a stamping plant in the automotive industry. The other objective of this study was evaluation of throughput relative to press schedules, shift patterns, the number of material handling resources (i.e. fork truck and tugger train drivers), and storage inventory levels. This dynamic simulation study enabled plant managers to balance the driver utilization with respect to time and to accommodate typical press schedules to achieve desired throughput levels

Keywords

automobile industry; discrete event simulation; inventory management; materials handling; resource allocation; automotive industry; dynamic simulation; fork truck; material handling resource utilization simulation; press schedules; shift patterns; stamping plant; storage inventory levels; tugger train drivers; Automotive engineering; Job shop scheduling; Material storage; Materials handling; Modeling; Production; Resource management; Throughput; Vehicle dynamics; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2006. WSC 06. Proceedings of the Winter

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0500-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0501-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2006.322978

Filename

4117836