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Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. John A. White

    1. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Ira W. Pence

    1. Material Handling Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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Part of the book series: Progress in Materials Handling and Logistics (LOGISTICS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Guided Vehicle Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Guided Vehicle Technology: From Automated to Autonomous

      • Larry E. Banta
      Pages 3-13

    3. The Design and Construction of Three Autonomous Vehicles

      • Kevin J. Dowling
      Pages 15-24

    4. Evaluation of Heuristic Control Strategies for AGVs under Varying Demand Arrival Patterns

      • Russell E. King, Thom J. Hodgson, Steve K. Monteith
      Pages 25-39

    5. Towards a Free Roving Vision Guided AGV

      • Madeline H. E. Larcombe
      Pages 41-55

  3. Robot Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision

      • Ernest L. Hall, Juha Roning
      Pages 59-74

    3. Increasing the Speed of Computers Using Optics

      • William T. Rhodes
      Pages 75-84

    4. Control of High Speed Material Handling Manipulators

      • Stephen L. Dickerson
      Pages 85-92

    5. Experiments on the Control of a Satellite Manipulator

      • Harold L. Alexander, Robert H. Cannon Jr.
      Pages 93-105

  4. Automated Storage and Retrieval Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Control Design Issues for Material Handling Systems

      • Stephen L. Parsley
      Pages 109-119

    3. The Automation of Material Handling System’s Control Software

      • G. K. Hutchinson, A. T. Clementson
      Pages 121-132

    4. The Analysis of AS/RS Performance

      • Ernest Koenigsberg
      Pages 133-150

    5. An empirical Evaluation of a General Purpose Automated Order Accumulation and Sortation System used in Batch Picking

      • Yavuz A. Bozer, Gunter P. Sharp
      Pages 151-177

  5. Modeling Technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Simulating Material Handling Systems

      • C. Dennis Pegden
      Pages 181-197

    3. Networks of Queues with Blocking and Load Balancing

      • Ke-Tsai Edward Chin, Richard F. Serfozo
      Pages 199-207

    4. Manufacturing Systems Modelling: Its Role and Current Issues

      • Rajan Suri
      Pages 209-221
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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 the right orientation, and at the right cost. But, what are the right methods? The emergence of sophisticated control systems, coupled with advances in hardware design, has resulted in a wide variety oftechno­ logical alternatives availablefor practically any application. Yet, with the emergence of just-in-time methods and the apparent success of the firms that have relied on the use of people and" simple" rules, rather than technology, the proper role of hardware and software in material handling and logistics is open to debate. Despite all that has been accomplished to date, the design of material handling and logistics systems remains an art as well as a science. Regardless of whether it is people, conveyors, lift trucks, robots, guided vehicles, laser scanners, storage/retrieval machines, carousels, voice encoding, machine vision, automatic palletizers, or other methods that are appropriate, selecting the right methods for moving, storing, and controlling material is vital. It is important that the selection decision be made after consideration is given to the requirements for amount, material, place, time, condition, sequence, orientation, and cost.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    John A. White

  • Material Handling Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ira W. Pence

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