Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics

Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics by John A. White, Ira W. Pence.

Material handling and logistics have become especially important to industrialists because of the competitive advantage that results from using the right methods to provide the right amount of the right material at the right place, at the right time, in the right condition, in the right sequence, in...

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Main Authors: White, John A. (Author), Pence, Ira W. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics, 1
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Engineering economics.
Engineering economy.
Manufactures.
Organization.
Planning.
Control engineering.
Robotics.
Mechatronics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Section One: Guided Vehicle Technology
  • Guided Vehicle Technology: From Automated to Autonomous
  • The Design and Construction of Three Autonomous Vehicles
  • Evaluation of Heuristic Control Strategies for AGVs Under Varying Demand Arrival Patterns
  • Towards a Free-Roving Vision-Guided AGV
  • Section Two: Robot Technology
  • Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision
  • Increasing the Speed of Computers Using Optics
  • Control of High-Speed Material Handling Manipulators
  • Experiments on the Control of a Satellite Manipulator
  • Section Three: Automated Storage and Retrieval Technology
  • Control Design Issues for Material Handling Systems
  • The Automation of Material Handling System’s Control Software
  • The Analysis of AS/RS Performance
  • An Empirical Evaluation of a General Purpose Automated Order Accumulation and Sortation System Used in Batch Picking
  • Section Four: Modeling Technology
  • Simulating Material Handling Systems
  • Networks of Queues with Blocking and Load Balancing
  • Manufacturing Systems Modelling: Its Role and Current Issues
  • Modeling Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Product-Form Queueing Networks
  • Validation of Manufacturing System Models
  • Section Five: Flexible Manufacturing
  • Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems
  • Real-Time Optimization in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility
  • Machine Configuration for Flexible Assembly Systems
  • Design and Operating Issues in Flexible Manufacturing
  • Section Six: Transportation
  • Linehaul-Backhaul: Solutions with Spacefilling Curves.

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