文档介绍：Realizing Efficient and User-friendly Simulation for
Material Flow in Shop Floor
Hongze MA, Bjorn SOLVANG , Ziqiong DENG
Narvik Institute of Technology, Narvik, Norway
E-mail: {hm, bjs, zd}***@
Abstract There are three kinds of flows in a shop floor (or
By simulation of material flow in shop floor, we
manufacturing system): material flow, process flow
can get the throughput of a shop, utilization of
resources and other results. These results can help and information flow. Material flow is the basic one.
us to optimize the design of new manufacturing By means of the analysis of material flow, we can
shop and/or the operation of existing shop floor. analyze the throughput of the shop, utilization of
Thus, identifying an efficient and user-friendly resources and other results. This can help us to
simulation tool for material flow analysis in shop
optimize the design of new manufacturing shop and/or
floor is a basic necessity. In this paper, first, we
the operation of existing shop floor.
analyze pare the efficiency and user-
friendly features of three kinds of simulation tools: Simulation is a convenient and economic method for
text-language based software, including general- this kind of analysis[1], many simulation tools
purpose text-language (. FORTRAN) and (software packages) have been developed for this
special simulation text-l