Traffic Flow Analysis Based on Queuing Models
Subject Areas : Design of Experiment
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,
)
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.