AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING USING RFID

Track layout accommodating dynamic routing in automated material handling systems

Holonic-based Control System for Automated Material Handling Systems

In real-word manufacturing environments, finding the right job sequences and their associated schedules when resource, precedence, and timing constraints are imposed is a difficult task. For most practical problems classical scheduling easily leads to an exponential growth in the number of possible schedules. Moreover, a decision time period of hours or even minutes is too long. Good solutions ...

Buffer Management for Automated Material Handling Systems in Semiconductor Industries

The automated material handling system (AMHS) is a highly automated transport solution of actual 300mm semiconductor waferfabs. The big logistic challenge in such a running system is the just-in-time delivery of lots (carriers). Therefore, beside tracks and vehicles, there are different storages (stocker) and buffers (under track storages and load ports) integrated in such a transport system. T...

Congestion-aware dynamic routing in automated material handling systems

Multi - Attribute Material Handling Equipment Selection Using Information Axiom

Effective use of labor, providing system flexibility, increasing productivity, decreasing lead times and costs are some of the most important factors influencing selection of material handling equipment. In this study, a decision support system (MHAD) considering these factors for material handling equipment selection is developed. MHAD consists of a database, a rulebased system and multi-attri...