Our present and especially our future are intertwined with new technical- technological discoveries. Based on this fact, new and increasingly more complex managerial challenges or problems arise, bringing with them the necessity for comprehensive changes that are greater and more extensive than ever. Among these is definitely the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) that completely changes or even rejects traditional technologies and also the traditional way of thinking and functioning. Of course, we cannot ignore the risks that occur when implementing such enormous and extensive changes. If we focus on the increasingly more complex problem of logistics management of any important company activity, we can find that its efficiency depends on reliable and predictable market behaviour. This is the phenomenon of quick adaptation to changes, which with classical (already obsolete and therefore one-sided) approaches cannot be guaranteed anymore, particularly not sustainably. This means that it is necessary to manage such complex problem situations as a whole (socially responsibly). Within the scope of this paper, a case study of implementing an automated warehouse system in the field of Intralogistics 4.0 is presented and discussed.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 512862013In this paper, the next generation logistics (Industry 4.0) by reinventing the warehouse by using autonomous vehicle storage and retrieval systems (SBS/RS) is presented. Travel-time model that considers the real operating characteristics of the shuttle carrier and the elevator’s lifting table, has been used. Assuming uniform distributed storage locations and the probability theory, expressions for the expected cycle time of the elevator’s lifting table and the shuttle carrier have been presented. For the performance analysis of the SBS/RS, the method called Design of Experiments (DOE) has been used, from which the performance of the SBS/RS can be evaluated.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 512869949In the framework of applied research project and international cooperation between the University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilnius, Litva), I have performed an invited lecture entitled: »Application of the 4.0 warehouse management system (WMS) in logistics«.
B.04 Guest lecture
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