one of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. in this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (m/m/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

Nowadays, factors such as economic globalization and creation of global markets, rapid changes of technologies, become-knowledgeable organizations, expansion of e-commerce, rapid and easy access of the consumer to goods and services, and change of their social requirements have caused a severe competition among businesses followed by a stress on these organizations` personnel. Thus, aside the o...

Over recent decades, demand for various materials has increased at an unprecedented rate to underpin human well-being. However, our current material use is problematic and generates massive waste, which is approaching the carrying capacity of our planet and requires a spin on its growth, namely the peak waste. Hence, the current waste generation trend must be fully understood and adjusted. In p...