2013
HMS 2013 Proceeding
Improving car port terminal efficinecy through modelling and simulation
Authors: James Brucato
Abstract
Palermo Euro Terminal (PET) s.r.l. is an Extended Enterprise of the Italian shipping company ?Grimaldi Group? and specialises in multimodal port logistics of cars, and vehicles in general, carried to the port of Palermo through the Grimaldi Group car carrier ships and Sicilian road transporters trucks. On behalf of the Grimaldi company, PET performs physical operations (receiving, unloading, stocking, delivering and loading, cars onto ships or trucks) and the related informatics tasks (cars data collecting, updating, warehousing), including mandatory reports about order and conditions of managed cars. This paper aims to show how the Object-Process Methodology (OPM) modeling and simulation approach supported the analysis and overall improvement of PET efficiency highlighting a lack of effectiveness of the informative system, and of a number of internal processes, mainly leading the implementation of a new, significantly more effective and less expensive infrastructure for the management of cars data.
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