KAILAS SREE CHANDRAN

M100447ME
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 A Job Shop producing 3 types of Gears; G1, G2, G3.
 Job Shop consists of
o Arrival Dock
o Milling Workstation
o Drilling Workstation
o Paint Shop
o Polishing Area
o Shop Exit
 Gear Jobs arrive in batches of 10 units. Their inter-arrival times are
uniformly distributed between 400 and 600 minutes.
 Of arriving batches, 50% are G1, 30% are G2, 20% are G3.
 Each gear type has different operation sequence.

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 Gears are transported by Two trucks running at a constant speed of
100 feet/minute.
 Each truck can carry only one gear at a time.
 Transport Procedure:
◦ The Transport starts from Arrival Dock
◦ When a job is complete at a location, the gear is placed into an output buffer.
◦ A transport request is made for a truck, and the gear waits for the truck to
arrive.
◦ Among the two trucks, the preference will be for the one which is closest to
the requested location.
◦ The transported job is placed in the input buffer of next station.
◦ After all operations, the finished gear departs from the job shop via the Shop
Exit.
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 FOUR Milling Machines
TWO Spray Booths
MILLING
PAINTING SHOP
WORKSTATION

ARRIVAL DOCK SHOP EXIT

DRILLING
POLISHING AREA
WORKSTATION

ONE Worker
THREE Drilling Machines

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GEAR TYPE OPERATION SEQUENCES PROCESSING TIME(Minutes)
Milling 35
Drilling 20
G1
Painting 55
Polishing 15
Milling 25
G2 Painting 35
Polishing 15
Drilling 18
G3 Painting 35
Polishing 15

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 MILLING
PAINTING SHOP
WORKSTATION

ARRIVAL DOCK SHOP EXIT

DRILLING
POLISHING AREA
WORKSTATION

G1
G2
G3
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 TO Arrival Milling Drilling Paint Polishing
FROM Shop Exit
Dock Station Station Shop Area
Arrival
Dock 100 100 250 250 550
Milling
Station 100 300 400 150 300
Drilling
Station 100 300 150 400 500
Paint Shop 250 400 150 300 400
Polishing
Area 250 150 400 300 200
Shop Exit 550 300 500 400 200
Units in feet 8
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 Transporter(Truck) speed is same for both
loaded and empty.
 The freed transporter stays at the destination
station until requested by another station.
 The Job Shop works for 24 hours a day in 3
shifts at 8 hours each.

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 Gear Job Arrivals Gear Transportation

Gear Processing

Gear Departure 13
Inter Arrival time: Uniform 400 & 600 minutes.
Entities per arrival: 10.

Gear type proportion: G1=0.5, G2=0.3, G3=0.2.

Reference for Operations Sequence.

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 Transporter name: Fork Truck
Station Name: Arrive Dock Transporter preference: Smallest Distance

Transporter destination: By Sequence

Transporter speed: 100 feet/minute

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 Station Name: Milling Station

Transporter name: Fork Truck

Resource: Milling Machine

Process time: From Sequence
Transporter name: Fork Truck
Transporter preference: Smallest
Distance

Transporter destination: By Sequence

Transporter speed: 100 feet/minute

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Station Name: Milling Station Recording Flow Time

Transporter name: Fork Truck Departure from Job Shop

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 Gear delays at operation locations

44.8111
50
Waiting Time(Minutes)

40

30

14.6109
20

0.6656 3.0743
10

0
Drilling Milling Painting Polishing

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 Resource Utilization

50 44.8
37.63
40 29.88
Utilization, %

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20 12.48
8.98
10

0
Drilling Milling Paint Booth Polishing Fork Truck
M/C M/C Worker

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 Gear Flow Time (by Type)

240.46
250

153.2
Flow Time, Minutes

200

150 105.16

100

50

0
G1 G2 G3

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 Gear delays at operation locations
50
44.8111
Waiting Time(Minutes)

40

30

20
14.6109
10
0.6656 3.0743
0
Drilling Milling Painting Polishing
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Increase the number of Paint booth from two to three.
GEAR DELAYS AT OPERATION LOCATIONS
Initial Suggestion
Drilling 0.6656 0.6556
RESOURCE UTILIZATION
Milling 14.6109 14.619
Initial Suggestion
Painting 44.8111 16.082
Drilling M/C 8.98 8.98
Polishing 3.0743 8.945
Milling M/C 12.48 12.48
Paint Booth 44.8 29.86
GEAR FLOW TIME Polishing Worker 29.88 29.86
Initial Suggestion Fork Truck 37.63 37.42
G1 240.46 203.02
G2 153.2 141.93
G3 105.16 103.93

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 Tayfur Altiok & Benjamin Melamed. 2007.
Simulation Modeling and Analysis with Arena
(2nd ed.), Elsevier Inc.

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 David Kelton W., Randall P. Sadowski, Deborah A.
Sadowski. 2001. Simulation with Arena (2nd ed.),
McGraw Hill.
 R. Tavakkoli, M., Daneshmand Mehr. 2005. A
Computer Simulation Model for Job Shop
Scheduling Problems Minimizing Makespan,
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 48, 811–
823.
 Rahime Sancar E. & Arslan O. 2009. Simulation
Analysis of Lot Streaming in Job Shops with
Transportation Queue Disciplines, Simulation
Modelling Practice and Theory, 17,442–453.

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