Material handling system

Abstract

A highly complex material handling system for pallets forms the interface and link between a warehouse, two production areas and an order-picking area of a company handling numerous crossing flows of palletised raw materials, products, packaging materials etc. Simulation-based analysis of the system aims at investigating its performance to determine the system's load limit and derive conclusions regarding the system's ability to cope with future loads. The case study presented in this chapter extracts key aspects from the respective real project to show how such a problem typical to logistics is approached and solved. © 2009 Springer London.