Overview
- Addresses a higher level of automation in distribution centres/warehouses and the development of such logistic systems
- Covers a large part of warehouse development including robotic components for material handling, system analysis and design, and system-level control
- Describes how academic research can be applied to reduce the industrial challenge of designing complex logistic systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Decentralised Control Engineering
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Models in System Design
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Automated Item Handling
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Automated item handling
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Transport by Roaming Vehicles
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Transport by roaming vehicles
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About this book
The warehouses of the future will come in a variety of forms, but with a few common ingredients. Firstly, human operational handling of items in warehouses is increasingly being replaced by automated item handling. Extended warehouse automation counteracts the scarcity of human operators and supports the quality of picking processes. Secondly, the development of models to simulate and analyse warehouse designs and their components facilitates the challenging task of developing warehouses that take into account each customer’s individual requirements and logistic processes.
Automation in Warehouse Development addresses both types of automation from the innovative perspective of applied science. In particular, it describes the outcomes of the Falcon project, a joint endeavour by a consortium of industrial and academic partners. The results include a model-based approach to automate warehouse control design, analysis models for warehouse design, concepts for robotic item handling and computer vision, and autonomous transport in warehouses.
Automation in Warehouse Development is targeted at both academic researchers and industrial practitioners. It provides state-of-the art research on warehouse automation and model-based warehouse design. These topics have been addressed from a systems engineering perspective by researchers from different disciplines including software, control, and mechanical engineering, with a clear focus on the industrial applications of their research.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Automation in Warehouse Development
Editors: Roelof Hamberg, Jacques Verriet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-968-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-967-3Published: 30 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5974-2Published: 30 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-968-0Published: 28 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 244
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Robotics and Automation, Operations Management, Control and Systems Theory