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Tecnomatix eMPower Products Help Improve Baggage Handling at One of Europe's Busiest Airports
August 22, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Herzlia, Israel — Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.'s eMPower products were used to simulate and optimize baggage handling for Munich Airport's newly opened Terminal 2.
Terminal 2 has doubled Munich Airport's current capacity with room for some 25 million additional passengers annually, and can process more than 15,000 bags per hour. eM-Plant, the company's leading factory floor simulation product, simulated the operation of a 25-mile baggage-handling transportation system, capable of transporting baggage at speeds surpassing 15 miles per hour. More than 17,000 individual elements (including conveyors, gates, baggage claims, security checkpoints, routing stations and many other components) interconnect to route baggage through the airport to its intended destination.
A central transportation computer manages the information collected across the network, identifying the shortest route for each individual piece of luggage between gates and baggage claims. To support the detailed planning of the baggage system as efficiently as possible, a complete model of the terminal layout was developed in eM-Plant. The project was directed by PPI-Informatik (Dr. Prautsch and Partner) in close cooperation with the Terminal 2 Project Team.
Tecnomatix has a long history of successful large-airport simulation projects around the world, including airports in Frankfurt, Atlanta, Denver and Newark — earlier this year, Tecnomatix reported the adoption of its eM-Plant solution for other airport simulation projects, such as Russia's Domodedovo International and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Domodedovo is using eM-Plant to plan the reconstruction of its international terminal, as well as predict higher levels of passenger flow and schedule day-to-day passenger services operations. The airport has already reported significant improvements in check planning, bus and gate scheduling, and boarding.
At Schiphol, one of the world's busiest airports, eM-Plant is being used to simulate the use of automated guided vehicles to transport goods through a proposed underground logistic system, increasing throughput and reducing the time it takes to relay goods through the airport and its rail and auto connections.
Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. is the driving force in Manufacturing Process Management (MPM). For more information, visit www.tecnomatix.com.