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Factory Simulation Software

06/12/2009 9:32 AM

Hi all,

I'm hoping maybe more experienced engineers can help me out with this one.

We have a postal sorting centre. There are multiple mail products (pre-paid, stamped etc) that need to go through their own process flow. There are many common processes that all products flow through (sorting machines, manual sortation etc.).

What is needed is a model to plan the number of units needed running to clear a given volume, bearing in mind the capacity has finite limits.

The main challenge Im finding is that we dont quite get product in uniformly hour by hour. The arrivals are dynamic, for example - you may have 50% of your product to process at 9am but only 2% arrives at 9pm. So a model that brings excess product that could not be cleared and adds it to the interval new arrivals is the trick.

Can anyone recommend some tool that allows one to enter varying product arrivals over a day?

Or if anyone in the postal industry has experience with modelling it would be helpful to hear your thoughts.

Thanks,

Jack

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Re: Factory Simulation Software

06/13/2009 8:53 PM

Hello Guest, why not join? We are quite friendly!

Regarding your sorting machines. It would seem obvious to me to find the through-put of the sorting machines you use, divide the total through-put of the whole facility by the maximum that one sorting machine can handle and, you have the number of sorting machines needed?

I realize these machines have a maximum speed, and perhaps they are not working at the maximum speed?

Or it could be that if you sorted out the larger letters and packages first, then run the smaller ones through, you would be able to sort more? Just a thought.

I have had a similar problem and had to sort it out when I was in print finishing. Sometimes it was quicker in the long run to do one operation, say to stick or staple a smaller or larger page in a book,then start to run the machine again to put the part completed books through.

I know you are not doing the same thing but, it is all about getting stuff through in the shortest time, as we were working to a deadline as well as you.

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Re: Factory Simulation Software

06/14/2009 12:57 AM

Hai Jack

We are ERP developers who can give solutions to your requirements.

Can you please share your E mail address so that we can send you our company profile for your refrence.

Please get back to me at the earliest : sasikala@pactsoft.com

With best regards

Sasikala

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