Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management, 2020

Muhammad Fakhruriza Pradana
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa

Bryan Tan
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg

Bernd Noche
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg

Since the dawn or society, man have dreamt of aviation. The first known form of man-made flight came in the form of paper kites originating from China. But it was only in the 18th century were hydrogen balloons invented and the Montgolfier brothers discovering the hot air balloon. Within the same century of the Wright brothers’ single man wooden plane, large commercial planes capable of carrying in the hundreds is flying over our oceans on a daily basis. As the number of flights and air travelers increases year on year, so does the amount of baggage they bring on board. The barometer used to gauge an airport operator’s service quality is often the efficiency and quality of their Baggage-Handling-System. Due to the highly competitive nature of airport operators, it is of great importance they have the state-of-the-art systems. The aim of this research is to find out if an automated Unit Load Device for passenger baggage is capable of providing advantages in terms of cost, manpower and time efficiency. The design of the system focuses on the loading of baggage from the airport’s conveyor or storage onto the plane and the unloading of them at the destination airport. This is done by the introduction of built-in conveyors in the Unit Load Devices that allows baggage to be loaded into them directly from the airport conveyors without the need of workers to do so. The Unit Load Devices would then be driven to the airplanes loading bay by automated Dollies. The ULD’s built-in conveyor would unload the baggage onto the plane. The reverse process is then done to transfer the baggage off the plane and into the destination airport’s baggage system. The performance of the system is evaluated by comparing them to general baggage systems that are currently in use through a series of simulations.

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