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The Internet of Things Applications
Published in Ravi Ramakrishnan, Loveleen Gaur, Internet of Things, 2019
Ravi Ramakrishnan, Loveleen Gaur
Benefits of integrating robots for supply chain efficiency and inventory movements have been observed in Amazon, which uses its Kiva range of 30,000 plus robots for servicing its “Prime” customer orders, thereby automatically notifying the status of transit and ensuring zero-defect delivery and fulfilment. Logistics automation has resulted in significant savings of time and costs and space, bringing about a go-go supply chain concept. Another case is Aethons Inc., which has introduced its TUG robots to deliver medication, samples, surgical supplies, and dispose of medical waste with a high degree of reliability and ease of use by automated aerial drones, guided vehicles, and legged robots.
The Mobile Technologies in the ‘Informative’ Society
Published in Kris MY Law, Andrew WH Ip, Brij B Gupta, Shuang Geng, Managing IoT and Mobile Technologies with Innovation, Trust, and Sustainable Computing, 2021
Miaojia Huang, Kris MY Law, Chenyu Xu
Logistics automation includes transportation, storage, packaging, loading and unloading, distribution, etc. 5G communication technology, IoT, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology are combined to provide data source for enterprise product logistics tracking system through the collection of real-time logistics information. In this way, the distribution routes can be optimized to ensure that goods are delivered to the designated places of customers in the best routes.
An advanced order batching approach for automated sequential auctions with forecasting and postponement
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2023
Xiang T. R. Kong, Miaohui Zhu, Yu Liu, Kaida Qin, George Q. Huang
Future works could be extended into four aspects. First, the model assumptions should be more realistic to take more real-world implementation issues into account, such as considering buffering size limitation in each zone. Second, if the auction order fulfillment is further transforming from two-dimension to three-dimension automation systems, we need to design the relevant storage, retrieval, and sorting policies. Third, as the overall supply chain planning becomes more important, the mechanism to combine the transportation decision with the existing strategy is worthy of further exploration. Finally, with the automation and autonomous intelligence, the auctioneer’s decision will be replaced by autonomous agents (e.g. auction robots). The synergy between the proposed auction logistics automation and future auctioneer’s decision automation deserves in-depth research.
Investigating automation and AGV in healthcare logistics: a case study based approach
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2019
Smail Benzidia, Blandine Ageron, Omar Bentahar, Julien Husson
To answer our research question, we follow a qualitative case study methodology. This is because of the emerging aspect of this subject (very few studies have been conducted on the logistics impacts of automation in the healthcare sector) and the lack of research carried out on the e of AGV within hospitals from a logistics organisation perspective. Indeed, the current knowledge of this topic is still in an exploration phase (Eisenhardt 1989), and the case study permit to cover contextual conditions that we believe to be significant to the phenomenon we want to study (Yin 2009). Moreover, studying hospital logistics and obtaining information on this subject appears difficult due to its recent emergence and complex processes. Finally, we aim to acquire an in-depth understanding of logistics issues in experiences. The identification of a single, information-rich case study encouraged us to choose this research methodology (McCutcheon and Meredith 1993). This exemplar site provides a very good example of the observed phenomenon and allowed us to answer our research question (Eisenhardt 1989). The hospital was a unique pilot in logistics automation. Indeed, it was one of the first to be designed and constructed by integrating an automation project of logistics flows from the early phase of drafting specifications. Its construction was innovative, unlike other hospitals that have to integrate logistics flows automation into an existing system and infrastructure (including buildings), and it still remains a reference for many other similar projects and hospitals that use it as a benchmark for future projects. Our privileged access to the hospital facilitated the achievement interviews with various actors involved in flow management and the collection of empirical data.
Designing a fully automated and integrated inventory and replenishment system for hospitals
Published in International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, 2023
Sara Jebbor, Raddouane Chiheb, Abdellatif El Afia, Maryam Gallab
The remainder of this work is organised as follows. The second section presents the literature review of hospital logistics automation. The third section presents the strategy adopted for designing a fully automated and integrated system, which constitutes this work methodology. The fourth section is dedicated to describing the proposed automated system and its modelling on ‘FlexSim’ software. The fifth section presents the system evaluation results, its advantages, and limits after a simulation in a virtual university hospital under a Burn Mass Casualty Incident (BMCI). Finally, the paper ends with a conclusion and future research directions.