It is a familiar scene: the installation does not reach the planned rate, and someone suggests adding another vehicle.
That may be the right decision. Or it may just leave one more AGV waiting at the same crossing.
Because capacity does not depend on fleet size alone. It also depends on shared routes, priorities, loading and unloading points, and when transport requests coincide.
Before growing the fleet, we prefer to test what happens when:
- demand goes up;
- several transports claim the same resource;
- service times change;
- or a route is blocked.
Simulation tells a real shortage of vehicles apart from a flow problem. It sounds like a fine point. For the investment, it is not.
If your production rate goes up tomorrow, do you know where the queue will build first?
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