Introduction
- Transport processes:
- important part of production and logistic processes
- generically continuous in time (positions, mass flow)
- often used inside discrete-event environment
- Conveyor belt:
- simple for constant velocity and load
- for dry bulk material
- wide range of granularity (powder, rice, apples,
ore)
- varying load
- changing belt velocity
- adapt to varying inflow
- shorten transportation time
- decrease power consumption
- carefully handle damageable goods
- here: no stretching of the belt
- Modeling approaches according to granularity:
- microscopic (tracking of particles)
- macroscopic (fluid dynamics)
- mesoscopic (piles of material)
- less computationally intense
- suited for standard discrete modeling
environments