Article ID: | iaor20012190 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 673 |
End Page Number: | 684 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1999 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Beamon Benita M. |
Keywords: | congestion, material handling |
Congestion in a transportation system prevents vehicles from traveling freely. Therefore, congestion in a material handling system can reduce the system's performance. This paper: (1) develops an analytical methodology for measuring congestion in a material handling system, (2) develops a congestion measure that is measurable in real-time and readily incorporated into existing analytical models for material handling system design and (3) develops quantitative relationships between critical material handling system variables and system congestion.