Traffic Flow Analysis Based on Queuing Models

Subject Areas : طراحی آزمایشات

Mohammad  Modares ¹ (Industrial engineering department, Sharif university of technology, Tehran, Azadi ave, IRAN,)
Hossein  Beheshti Fakher ² (Engineering deputy, Iran khodro Co, km 14 karaj special road, Tehran, IRAN,)

Received: 2008-11-03 Accepted : 2009-02-12 Published : 2010-02-07

Keywords: Material flow, Traffic, Queue,

Abstract :

One of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. In this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (M/M/1) is analyzed in a carmaker company (IKCO). Through the analysis, the production stop rate and relevant costs are estimated.