Performance analysis and management of an Automated Distribution Center

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4371-4376

  Dotoli, Mariagrazia ^a   Fanti, Maria Pia ^a   Iacobellis, Giorgio ^a   Stecco, Gabriella ^b   Ukovich, Walter ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARENA SIMULATIONS; AUTOMATED DISTRIBUTION; CORE ACTIVITY; CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; GLOBAL COMPETITION; MARKET CHANGES; MATERIAL HANDLING; MODELING LANGUAGES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SHORT PRODUCT; WAREHOUSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MATERIALS HANDLING; WAREHOUSES;

MULTICARRIER MODULATION;

EID: 77951582516     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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