Engineering autonomously controlled logistic systems

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1449-1468

  Scholz Reiter, B ^a   Kolditz, J ^a   Hildebrandt, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous control; Process modelling; Production control; Systems engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LOGISTICS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SPECIFICATIONS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS CONTROLS; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENGINEERING PROCESSES; FACE DYNAMICS; IMPROVED PROCESSES; LOGISTIC PROCESSES; LOGISTIC SYSTEMS; LOGISTICS PROCESSES; OVERALL SYSTEMS; PROCEDURE MODELS; PROCESS INFORMATIONS; SOFTWARE TOOLS; SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 57049166523     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540701581791     Document Type: Article

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