Modular simulation approach for automated material handling systems

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-30

  Meinert, Timothy S ^a   Don Taylor, G ^a   English, John R ^a  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT;

AUTOMATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS (AMHS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0345580251     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4869(98)00016-0     Document Type: Article

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