The development of augmented reality glasses is still ongoing and faces barriers in diffusion and concerns about their impact on users, organizations and society. The study aims to find sufficient ...solutions for this struggling digital innovation and to provide guidance for the implementation of augmented reality glasses in design-oriented projects. During a 3-year consortium research, acceptance and privacy have been identified as major phenomena that influence the adoption of augmented reality glasses in the logistics domain. To forge ahead digital innovation research, the focus of the presented research lies on the diffusion of this technology with design knowledge for the development of augmented reality glasses-based systems. Evidence and artifacts contribute to the still limited knowledge of system design based on augmented reality glasses from a domain-specific instantiation and an implementation framework.
Goal: Digitalization is a maior trend in intralogistics, both for academia and for the industry. This paper gives an overview on current intralogistic trends, the critical success factors of ...digitalization projects in intralogistics and the results of an online survey regarding these trends and success factors.
Design / Methodology / Approach: Literature reviews for both intralogistic trends and the success factors of the implementation were validated using an online survey with 105 intralogistic professionals, both from academia and industry.
Results: Both trends and success factors could be validated and brought into a ranking regarding their importance.
Limitations of the investigation: The online survey had a limited number of respondends and, even though all trends were provided with a short explanation, different interpretations or understandings of trends and success factors might have been present. Moreover, some trends and success factors have a certain overlap and the differences are not always clear.
Practical implications: The survey and the description of intralogistic trends and success factors allow practitioners to better understand, structure and prioritize their implementation projects and possibly to increase their success rate.
Originality / Value: There are several studies on general logistic trends and a few studies regarding success factors for digitalization, mostly in the field of ERP implementation. The presented research and online survey are a contribution to the specific field of trends and success factors in digitalization of intralogistics.
Manually driven counterbalanced forklift is materials handling equipment which is used for a range of intralogistics processes activities realisation. Permanent aims in this area are focused on ...increasing of speed of processes realization and reliability/accuracy, on one side, and logistics costs decrease, on the other side. Those aims have initiated significant researches in different domains, first of all in mechanical and/or electric engineering area, and have resulted in improvement in technical and technological parameters of forklifts. Since speed increase (driving, hoisting, lowering speed) are significantly limited through technical and/or technological factors, as well as with different safety and other regulatory issues, researches have been focused on new possibilities for productivity increasing through time reducing of other activities and some other solutions concerned on forklifts. In recent years, very intensive is approach on involving different modern IT solutions on forklift that enables achieving mentioned aims. This paper gives review of some solutions and tendencies in this domain.
Warehousing is one of the most important activities in the supply chain, enabling competitive advantage. Effective management of warehousing processes is, therefore, crucial for achieving minimal ...costs, maximum efficiency, and overall customer satisfaction. Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) are the first steps towards organizing these processes; however, due to the human factor involved, information on products, vehicles and workers may be missing, corrupt, or misleading. In this paper, a cost-effective Indoor Positioning System (IPS) based on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology is presented for use in Intralogistics that works automatically, and therefore minimizes the possibility of acquiring incorrect data. The proposed IPS solution is intended to be used for supervising order-picker movements, movement of packages between workstations, and tracking other mobile devices in a manually operated warehouse. Only data that are accurate, reliable and represent the actual state of the system, are useful for detailed material flow analysis and optimization in Intralogistics. Using the developed solution, IPS technology is leveraged to enhance the manually operated warehouse operational efficiency in Intralogistics. Due to the hardware independence, the developed software solution can be used with virtually any BLE supported beacons and receivers. The results of IPS testing in laboratory/office settings show that up to 98% of passings are detected successfully with time delays between approach and detection of less than 0.5 s.
This paper focuses on the sustainability of material flow and intralogistics in factories, two of the primary keys to productivity. In the past ten years, there has been significant interest in the ...sustainability of intralogistics to increase productivity. The aim of this article is to investigate the consequences of combining two factories into one, followed by the design of new material flows and intralogistics from a long-term perspective and with respect to sustainability. Therefore, this paper outlines sustainability variants of new material flow solutions in factories. Our methods and approaches were chosen because they represent one of the most rapid ways to rationalise material flows and intralogistics in factories to sustain this concept. In comparison with other projects that eliminate problems in the short term, we have focused on the overall long-term and sustainable concept of intralogistics and material flows over the next 10 to 15 years. Our approach has the potential to increase productivity intralogistics and its long-term sustainability. The proposed variants were verified and evaluated using visTable®touch software (v.2.7, plavis GmbH, Chemnitz, Germany). On the basis of these results, the rational variant of material flows was chosen for the factory. This variant has the highest overall improvement of 25%, even after the implementation of factory two into factory one.
With the emergence of Industry 4.0 in intralogistics, the need for flexible material handling solutions is increasing. While conventional conveyor systems are often too inflexible to meet changing ...requirements. Automated guided vehicles offer an answer, additional solutions are required for companies relying on already busy and crowded shop floors. This paper presents a concept for a periphery-free electrified monorail system (PEMS) that enables flexible material transport with minimal floor requirements. The PEMS is based on classic electrified monorail technology, and requires no additional peripheral devices within the rail system. Installation and maintenance costs are kept to a minimum through simplified branching elements and a battery-powered energy supply for the vehicles. The modular design of the rail elements further allows transport on standardized Euro-pallets. Moreover, a taxonomy for evaluating the passivity of branching elements of electrified monorail systems is introduced. The functionality of the PEMS was validated by conducting real experiments using a prototype, The results show that the PEMS provides high flexibility in terms of layout design and usage, allowing for fast adaption to the changing requirements of intralogistics.
The volatile market and individualised needs have significantly changed traditional lean production system to the enhanced smart production system. As one of the key parts in production system, ...intralogistics faces the main problem to properly evaluate the current situation, which is one reason for carrying out an improvement strategy and realising intelligent intralogistics. This article studies a method to develop an assessment tool for intralogistics considering Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) enabling technologies in order to analyse the status quo. Firstly, the key performance indicators of resource efficiency and scope of intralogistics are generated via literature review and empiricism. Secondly, the evaluation aspects are structured and corresponding criteria are identified by considering CPPS enabling technology. Then, the resource efficiency level is defined and the general evaluation results are modelled. A case study based on industrial companies is used to validate the feasibility of the approach. The derived results are presented, discussed and conclusions drawn.
Different learning theories encourage different kinds of learning approaches. Following constructivist theories, learning experiences should be realistic in order to facilitate learning. Virtual ...Reality (VR) serious games could be a realistic learning approach without the challenges of the real situation. The serious game InGo allows a user to learn the intralogistics process of receiving goods. In this work we explore whether learning in VR is more effective concerning learning success and learning experience than traditional learning approaches. No significant difference between the two approaches concerning learning success is found. However, other factors that have a long term effect on learning, such as intrinsic motivation, flow and mood, are significantly higher for the VR approach. Thus, our research fits with past research which indicated the high potential of VR based learnig and educational games. This work encourages future research to compare VR based and traditional learning approaches in the long term.
The paper at hand presents a definition of autonomous intralogistics systems and a classification of intralogistics systems with regard to their degree of autonomy. Intralogistics -; a complex ...interplay of different logistics functions - covers the organization, control, execution and optimization of internal material and information flows. Over the past two decades, numerous authors have observed and proclaimed an increase in complexity in manufacturing and supply chain operations. A key approach to face this challenge is a paradigm shift from centralized, hierarchical organization structures towards, networked and autonomous systems. Autonomous intralogistics systems enable self-contained, decentralized planning, execution, control, and optimization of internal material and information flows through cooperation and interaction with other systems and with humans.Based on the definition of autonomous intralogistics systems, the authors propose a two-dimensional classification framework covering different automation stages for different intralogistics task levels. The developed classification framework is applied to various industry use cases to evaluate and discuss the state of the art regarding the implementation of autonomous intralogistics systems. Finally, the paper provides an outlook on future research and poses key research questions.
Industrial manufacturing is based on a variety of energy sources, e.g. electricity, oil, and gas. Electricity appears to be particularly relevant to operate most types of industrial production ...equipment in an environmentally friendly manner. Aside from production machines, intralogistics equipment that performs material handling and supplies processes is a further consumer of electricity in an industrial environment. The integration of electricity-intensive intralogistics equipment has, however, hardly been considered in the research on energy-aware production management. With this paper, we present an optimization model that synchronizes intralogistics charging decisions with a production schedule and the availability of renewable electricity in a power grid. Following the Industrie 4.0-paradigm, we use decentralized decision-making within an agent-based platform that coordinates different types of production and intralogistics equipment. We integrate a forecast signal for the availability of renewable energy into this platform to support an environmentally oriented decision process. In a simulation study that is based on real-world data, we analyze the role of intralogistics handling processes and charging operations with respect to a company's job shop environment and electricity consumption profile. In this simulation, we compare static charging policies in contrast to the proposed optimization model and decentral decision- making under various demand scenarios. The presented approach is shown to be capable of increasing local Logistics Research (2023) 16:4 DOI_ 10.23773/2023_4 electricity consumption in times of peak generation of renewable energy, which contributes to CO2 reductions in industrial manufacturing.
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