Introduction

• Transport processes:
  • important part of production and logistic processes
  • generically continuous in time (positions, mass flow)
  • often used inside discrete-event environment
• Conveyor belt:
  • simple for constant velocity and load
  • for dry bulk material
    • wide range of granularity (powder, rice, apples, ore)
    • varying load
  • changing belt velocity
    • adapt to varying inflow
    • shorten transportation time
    • decrease power consumption
    • carefully handle damageable goods
  • here: no stretching of the belt
• Modeling approaches according to granularity:
  • microscopic (tracking of particles)
  • macroscopic (fluid dynamics)
  • mesoscopic (piles of material)
    • less computationally intense
    • suited for standard discrete modeling environments