The aim of the case study based Bachelor’s thesis was to improve the customer’s average waiting time in an automotive service for commercial vehicles of a higher price range. Based on the existing queuing theory which are described in section 2 the most appropriate models were chosen for the task – the model M/M/1 with limited waiting space and the model M/M/r with limited waiting space. The system characteristics were computed with the help of the models. Among the characteristics the most important were average waiting time in the queue, the probability that a customer will not have to wait in the queue, and the average number of vehicles in the system. The case study revealed that the automotive service was overloaded with work which resulted in overproportional waiting times. The introduction of two-shift workday was proposed as the best possible solution as it resulted in the improvement of the existing situation by more than a half.
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