文档介绍：20th International Conference on Production Research
SIMULATION MODELING OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE SYSTEM
BASED ON JIT PHILOSOPHY
Zheng Yao, Shigeru Fujimura
Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University
2-7 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan 808-0135
Abstract
Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) system, as a very important part of production system which has been
studied and researched for decades. It performs centralized control on vehicles efficiently with responsibility
for transportation that brings much benefit to production management. JIT philosophy is a famous
production theory, the purpose of which is to make every activity just in time to keep promise to demand as
expectation. In this paper, a simulation study of AGV system based on JIT philosophy is presented. The
hypothetic workshop layout which consists of multiple stations and bi-directional paths with multiple AGVs is
adopted, that makes the dispatching problem for AGVs much plicated. A simple junction structure
is introduced into the system to deal with the problem of deadlock avoidance for AGVs at junctions
connecting bidirectional paths. And in addition, the movements of AGVs pleting the assignments
are also examined, which are rarely focused in other literatures. At end of the paper, the efficiency of
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