| Article ID: | iaor200962671 |
| Country: | Turkey |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 31 |
| End Page Number: | 42 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Journal: | Endstri Mhendislii Dergisi |
| Authors: | Koksalan Murat, Savasaneril Secil, Bilici Gozde, Colak Ozcan, Inalterkin Faruk, Kucuk Tayfun Can, Yetimoglu Selcuk |
| Keywords: | production, facilities |
a material transportation system, which is based on frequent delivery and pull principles, is designed for transportation of raw materials and semi-finished items in a diesel systems factory in this study. The main aim is to enable the operation of a lean transportation system that minimizes the cost of work-in-process inventory. Firstly, the possible routes are enumerated and through a developed eliminating procedure a feasible route set is defined. Then the transportation tasks are assigned to the remaining routes by a mathematical model that aims to minimize total cycle time. At this point, multi-objective mathematical modeling is used in order to generate different and applicable solutions. It is foreseen that with only organizational changes, there can be a 51% decrease in the total cost of the material handling system.