ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

Engineering Management Airport Baggage System

Engineering Management Airport Baggage System

Introduction

A system for handling baggage in airports, where the passenger hands over his baggage on check-in and collects it at the place of arrival. The system includes a check-in area for baggage where main baggage scheduled for a single flight and transit baggage scheduled for multiple flights are sorted and marked. A conveyor is provided for transporting main baggage to a main baggage buffer and for transporting transit baggage to a transit baggage buffer. A conveyor assembly is further provided for the continuous transport of baggage from the main baggage and transit baggage buffers into a cargo compartment in respective planes located in a departure area.

Discussion

Airports having baggage handling system consists of standard check-in and transport of baggage conveyor belt system to the sortation systems. Terminal domestic baggage is sorted by a Baggage Belt - Pusher system to secondary baggage accumulation lines for the final manual sortation to aircraft gate loading positions. The International baggage is sorted by an upper and lower Tilt-Tray sortation system to secondary baggage accumulation flat plate conveyor loops.( Braha, 2003, 185)

For many years it was believed that there is a trade-off between high-quality products and low developing and manufacturing costs, that it is more expen sive to develop and create products of higher quality. However, experience and progress in engineering design have proven that lowering costs and increasing quality can be done simultaneously. Next to quality and cost, time comes also as one of the measures of the effectiveness of the design process.( Leone, 2006, 70)

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