Reducing cost of material handling has been a big challenge for companies. Flexible manufacturing system employed automated guided vehicles (AGV) to maintain efficiency and flexibility. This paper presents a new non-linear mathematical programming model to group n machines into N loops, to make an efficient configuration for AGV system in Tandem layout. The model minimizes bot...

PURPOSE To compare 3-year outcomes and complications of the Ahmed FP7 Glaucoma Valve (AGV) (New World Medical, Cucamonga, CA) and the Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant (BGI) 101-350 (Abbott Medical Optics, Abbott Park, IL) for the treatment of refractory glaucoma. DESIGN Multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS A total of 276 patients: 143 in the AGV group and 133 in the BG...

We compare two approaches for a Markovian model in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) using Monte Carlo simulation. The model, which is a development of Fazlollahtabar and Saidi-Mehrabad (2013), considers two features of automated flexible manufacturing systems equipped with automated guided vehicle (AGV), namely, the reliability of machines and the reliability of AGVs in a multiple AGV jobs...

Multi-load Automated Guided Vehicle's (AGV) are regarded as a potential tool to tackle the low-efficiency issue that have plagued traditional single-load AGV systems for many years. However, date, optimal design and operation of multi-load is still an unresolved question. In order explore answer this question help operators make decisions during these systems, article will use Coloured Petri ne...

PURPOSE To compare the 5-year outcomes of the Ahmed FP7 Glaucoma Valve (AGV) (New World Medical, Cucamonga, CA) and the Baerveldt 101-350 Glaucoma Implant (BGI) (Abbott Medical Optics, Abbott Park, IL) for the treatment of refractory glaucoma. DESIGN Multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS A total of 276 patients, including 143 in the AGV group and 133 in the BGI gr...

Enterprise integration is a top priority for many organizations attempting to streamline business processes, coordinate disparate functions, improve corporate responsiveness to customers and partners and optimize supply chains in an effort to improve productivity. Web services orientation has appeared as a new paradigm for realizing enterprise integration, and fundamental to the service orienta...

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistics transportation systems in today's industry are widely used, especially Europe. Today's AGV-systems offered by global manufacturers almost all operate under some centralized control where single central controller coordinates entire fleet AGVs. There is trend towards decentralized these AGVs make individual decisio...

Localization and navigation technology is one of the key technologies for Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). In this paper we develop an AGV navigation system utilizing commercial Bluetooth GPS. WGS-84 coordinates system is converted to space rectangular coordinate system, which is combined with orientation information, initial position and gesture of AGV can be determined. Experimental result sho...

The technology for collaborative robots and the way these technologies are used in current socio-technical work systems rapidly evolving industrial applications. In absence of prescribed safety assessment methods from normative standards, this paper explores capabilities an STPA analysis behaviour robot We applied to a with heavy-load manipulating arm gripper, mounted on AGV-type mobile base. s...