Evaluation of AGV system in flexible production system: A simulation study

Abstract

Studying the performance of production systems is one of the major concerns of the manufacturers, this allows companies to adapt to any type of change to the environment and to ensure the smooth operation of the production system. Therefore, we conduct a study of a flexible manufacturing system which has a set of Automated Guided Vehicles system (AGVs) in order to define the levels of the most influential factors on the behavior of our system. Ever since, we perform scenarios of experiments that focus on the variation in the number of trucks circulated in the system and the management policy adopted carriages while taking into account the law of product arrival. A simulation tool SIMAN/ARENA has allowed us to analyze the behavior of the system and achieve suitable results that show the impact of proper choice of parameters on the system performance.