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 c...

Based on the total production process of iron and steel plant, and with the general design requirements for the major operating units, the major operating sites’ overall layout relationship of the iron and steel plant is determined. Based on the production workshops, auxiliary plants, power plants, transportation facilities, the functions of departments, subsidiary production and living service...

The layout of chemical plants has to take into consideration boundary conditions and requirements of many different engineering fields. In order to assist the design engineer at an early stage during the extended basic engineering, a system for computer aided plant design has been developed. It contains modules for •extended equipment models including equipment related piping and areas for main...

In today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. In addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. Therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

In other words, facilities design attempts to organize the tangible fixed assets of an activity in such way as to provide maximal support for the achievement of the activity's objectives at the present time and in the future at the lowest possible cost. This activity can take many different forms, e.g. manufacturing (plant layout), health care (hospital layout), transportation (airport layout) ...

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 c...