Högskolan i Skövde

The goal of the project is to make comparisons and evaluate single lane with two-way traffic flow, different ways of ordering and signal handling in a specific area of VCBC Upper Plant in Olofström. For that purpose, the simulation has been built with the support of the discrete event simulation software Tecnomatix Plant Simulation by Siemens to analyze the different outcomes and scenarios, in order to get a better understanding of how it currently works and the future improvements that could be implemented in the model. The final aim is to get a more efficient material flow in the production line, as well as better AVG traffic in the mentioned area.

The accomplishment of this project was carried out in collaboration with Volvo Cars Engine Skövde and VCBC Volvo Olöfstrom and the University of Skövde, Sweden in order to achieve the Bachelor degree in Automation Engineering and providing all the necessary material and data to build this model.

The results show a clear improvement after implementing a second track in the model, with different impacts in different stations but with a noticeable gain in the overall efficiency in all of them.