Abstract Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems are already in widespread use and their
importance for material handling is expected to grow rapidly. The advantages that such …

Global competition has made it necessary for many firms to introducesuch advanced
technologies as Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS). However, the extent of such …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance variables of flexible manufacturing
system (FMS). This study was performed by different approaches viz. interpretive structural …

A number of different performance measures have been used in the design and analysis of
material handling systems. These performance measures have measured either:(1) the …

The required number of AGVs necessary to perform a given level of material handling task in
an FMS environment is determined using analytical and simulation modelling. The analytical …

Purpose Due to the increasing demand of customer and competitive market pressure,
manufacturing organizations should be modernized in strategies, production operations …

Increasing customers' requirements together with the current trend of digitization in the spirit
of Industry 4.0 puts pressure on manufacturing companies to increase both the flexibility and …

This paper considers a new model of automated guided vehicle system arising from modern
transportation systems. The objective is to minimize the vehicle number in order to …

This thesis studies order picking in warehouses. Order picking, the process of retrieval
products from their storage locations to fill customer orders, is regarded as the most critical …

Automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems complement the operation of flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS) by providing integrated automated material handling that …