Offenes Baukastensystem zur effizienten Dimensionierung von Materialflusssystemen

Abstract

The optimal arrangement of logistical systems and operations gets an increased importance for the economicalness and competitiveness of enterprises. For individual components of material flow systems there are also existing approximate solutions and substitute models besides exact analytical calculations in the form of polynomials, neural nets or time-discrete analysis which allows a good analytical description of the behaviour of these components. It is aim of the module system to define a superordinate and unified communication and data interface for all of these variety of methods with her specific input and output quantities. By using a graphic editor, the material flow system can be modelled of such components with specified functions and parameters. Connections between the components allows exchange of information. The calculations of the components provide statements concerning utilization, queue size or waiting time ahead of the components as well as parameters for the description of the departure process.