SIMULATION ON LAYOUT DESIGN: A CASE STUDY
Layout design is very important not only in manufacturing systems but also in service systems. However, traditional research mainly focused on the objective of finding an optimal facility layout to minimize the material handling cost in manufacturing systems. Few studies concentrated on improving the facility layout of service systems to optimize their service level, such as waiting number and waiting time of customers. In this paper, simulation is used as a critical technology to analyse and improve the layout of a refectory. Two conclusions are drawn by the case study. One is that the methods used in manufacturing systems such as product-oriented layout design, specialization and standardization can also greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness in service systems. The other is that simulation technology can play an important role in layout design.
simulation layout design service systems specialization and standardization
Yanchun Pan Ming Zhou Zhimin Chen
College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, P.R.China Center for Systems Modeling and Simulation, Indiana State University, IN 47809, USA
国际会议
The Tneth International Conference on Industrial Management(第十届工业管理国际会议 ICIM 2010)
北京
英文
740-744
2010-09-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）