An efficiency improvement in warehouse operation using simulation analysis

International Conference on Informatics, Technology and Engineering 2017

计算机科学

Samattapapong, N.^1

School of Industrial Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand^1

关键词: Conveyor belts;    Data collection;    Efficiency improvement;    Simulation analysis;    Simulation model;    Simulation software;    Warehouse operation;    Warehouse systems;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/1/012013/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/1/012013

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In general, industry requires an efficient system for warehouse operation. There are many important factors that must be considered when designing an efficient warehouse system. The most important is an effective warehouse operation system that can help transfer raw material, reduce costs and support transportation. By all these factors, researchers are interested in studying about work systems and warehouse distribution. We start by collecting the important data for storage, such as the information on products, information on size and location, information on data collection and information on production, and all this information to build simulation model in Flexsim® simulation software. The result for simulation analysis found that the conveyor belt was a bottleneck in the warehouse operation. Therefore, many scenarios to improve that problem were generated and testing through simulation analysis process. The result showed that an average queuing time was reduced from 89.8% to 48.7% and the ability in transporting the product increased from 10.2% to 50.9%. Thus, it can be stated that this is the best method for increasing efficiency in the warehouse operation.