DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2015.V7.933
Development of Simulator for a Material Handling System Analysis of Assembly Line
Abstract—T Presented in this paper is the development of the
simulator for In-plant MHS (Material Handling System)
analysis of the assembly line. The MHS congestion on the
assembly line prevents feeders and vehicles from traveling
freely on the assembly line. Accordingly, congestion in a MHS
can reduce the performance of the system. Although there have
been many existing studies for reducing congestion in the
system, they are difficult to apply to a work-site directly,
because most of them have been studied in mathematical
approaches. An intuitive way is to apply a satisfactory result of
simulator to analyze current system and new system. The
proposed simulator to perform the simulation uses simulation
model, simulation engine and Feeder manager. The MHS
congestion analysis simulation model consists of five nodes: the
vehicle node, the buffer node, the work node, the source node
and the sink node. The simulation engine has an event calendar
to store events, and the engine repeatedly calls the events on the
event calendar. The feeding manager which performs a role of
route and schedule of feeders is the main idea of an MHS
analysis simulator. The implemented simulator can be utilized
to analyze the efficiency of MHS and working balance among
feeders.
Index Terms—Material handling system, simulator,
assembly line.
The authors are with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Ajou
University, Republic of Korea (e-mail:DaesChang@gmail.com,
scpark@ajou.ac.krF).
Cite:Dae S. Chang and Sang C. Park, "Development of Simulator for a Material Handling System Analysis of Assembly Line," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 70-75, 2015.