Table 1.
Workshop/Warehouse area and number of equipment.
Fig 1.
Original layout of the plant.
Fig 2.
The roadmap of this paper.
Fig 3.
Model of bearing manufacturing process.
Fig 4.
Non-transient transitions replaced by time value bases.
Fig 5.
Petri net model of one process.
Fig 6.
TdPN model of bearing plant logistics system.
Table 2.
Implication of the workshop.
Table 3.
Implication of shift.
Table 4.
Summary of the logistics intensity of the production unit of the bearing plan.
Table 5.
Classification of logistics intensity level.
Table 6.
Logistics intensity from production unit to production unit.
Fig 7.
Production unit correlation diagram.
Fig 8.
Correlation diagram of production unit location.
Fig 9.
Plant layout after improvement.
Fig 10.
Design diagram of simulation process.
Table 7.
Entity name, meaning and corresponding production unit.
Fig 11.
Simulation model of the original layout logistics system of the bearing plant.
Table 8.
Initial simulation result.
Fig 12.
Equipment idle rate scatter plot and fitting curve graph.
Table 9.
Equipment blockage table.
Fig 13.
Simulation model of layout logistics system after bearing plant improvement.
Table 10.
Comparison of equipment idle rates before and after improvement.
Table 11.
Comparison of blocking situation before and after improvement.