Unit load and material-handling considerations in facility layout design

Castillo, Ignacio; Peters, Brett A.

doi:10.1080/00207540210136531

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“…5,6 This is mainly due to the inadequacy of analytical models to consider many of the requirements of material flow, overall flow efficiency and many operational characteristics. 5,7,8 In the area of wastewater treatment facilities, discrete-event simulation have been applied repeatedly to estimate capacities, analyze and balance effluent water flows, and improve overall performance measures. [9][10][11][12][13][14] Ceric and Hlupic 15 used simulation to model a solid waste-processing system that is to be installed in Zagreb, Croatia.…”

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Design and management of a sewage pit through discrete-event simulation

Aleisa

AlAhmad

Taha³

2011

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This paper reports two discrete-event simulation studies to model the activities of a residential waste treatment facility and prepare it to accept additional wastewaters through tanker trucks. The first simulation study models the wastewater treatment facility to ensure its ability to handle the planned added capacity arriving through the pit, while the second study simulates various managerial strategies to handle the traffic, testing, and unload procedures of tanker trucks arriving at the facility. The simulation models were statistically validated and the outcomes of the study were implemented in reality. The wastewater treatment facility extension suggested by this study was implemented and launched in mid 2008 to accept residential wastewater tanker trucks. This has saved the environment over 6,000 m 3 daily from being dumped into the open unlined terrestrial landfills. Simulation proved to be an excellent tool in the facility planning effort, as it ensured smooth flow lines of tanker truck load discharge and the best utilization of facilities on site.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Design and management of a sewage pit through discrete-event simulation

Aleisa

AlAhmad

Taha³

2011

SIMULATION

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“…The factors that affect the cost of storage are: capital tied up in stock, and operating expenses of storehouses including wages, depreciation, rent, rates, repairs, insurance, etc. An excellent analysis that includes load unit and material-handling considerations can be found in the work by Castillo and Peters [16], but it is reduced to the traditional case in which all processes are triggered in sequence when a new order arrives. To reduce these costs companies with production are changing to models in which storage and material-handling become part of the production process [14,15].…”

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Integrated Production Attending to Supply Chain, Materials Handling and Storage Requirements

Garcĺa

Morenas

2012

International Journal of Advanced Logistics

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The recent appear of new technologies in product identification along the supply chain, gives foot to a new way of addressing old integration problems in the implementation of models and systems. Research in new identification technologies comes hand in hand with the one being carried out towards a better integration between manufacturing and distribution. This last integration is being done by the use of optimization models for plant configurations, which takes into account operational and structural aspects of such systems in a manufacturing environment. This paper deals with some of the problems that appear in product identification along the production/supply chain as well as some of the techniques that are being used to tackle them. A new approach for facing different aspects of production, storage and distribution planning is discussed, and a feasible model is presented.

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“…Because material handling equipment affects order-picking efficiency, many researchers proposed methods for arranging order-picking procedures based on the shortest distance possible [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In material handling, most literature focused on path design or plant layout for the purpose of upgrading handling efficiency [11][12][13][14][15], applications or methods to plan or choose a better material handling system [16][17][18][19], and integrating existing material handling equipment [20,21]. However, most material handling equipment studies focused on using technology to make material handling equipment smarter [22][23][24].…”

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The innovative conveying device application for transferring articles between two-levels of a multi-story building

Chang

Hsu³

2005

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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The need for corporations to expand or functionally alter their existing multi-story buildings increases because of rapid changes in the competitive environment. However, limited by building structures and the availability of space, when planning cross-level material handling, effective article transfer equipment integration becomes an important issue. The complexity and difficulty is far greater than that for traditional article transfer operations on a single-level floor area. Therefore, based on the concept of personal computers being able to replace IBM mainframes in the market, this paper proposed a smaller and more mobile multilevel device for article transfers that has the capacity to integrate other plant equipment to replace the conventional conveying device. This paper will make suggestions for cross-level article transfer device applications for use in different environments and industries. The structure of this facility is simple and its modularized design allows flexible expansion to accommodate corporate growth. This is a well-planed system that can serve as a reference for corporations intending to implement multi-level article transfer systems.Keywords Conveying device · Material handling · Multi-level article transfer BackgroundThe cost of general material handling takes up 30 to 75% of a plant's operational cost. Effective article-transfer planning can

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Unit load and material-handling considerations in facility layout design

Cited by 22 publications

References 38 publications

Design and management of a sewage pit through discrete-event simulation

Design and management of a sewage pit through discrete-event simulation

Integrated Production Attending to Supply Chain, Materials Handling and Storage Requirements

The innovative conveying device application for transferring articles between two-levels of a multi-story building

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