Current trends in the industrial or any other economic sector is to mechanize and gradually to automate individual procedures through the use of various technologies. The purpose of this is to minimize strenuous human labour and eliminate human error. Robotic automation can be effectively used in material handling operations, whether it is a logistics warehouse operation or a transport loading operation. This article deals with the characteristics of different types of industrial robots. It compares the different types of robots in terms of their appropriate application and consequently defines the requirements for those robots that can be applied in handling operations in transport and logistics.
Railway traffic safety is a decisive factor involved in any decision-making process in the railway transport, including the overall weight of cars, i.e., potential overloading. Overloaded rolling stock may cause many serious accidents. The presented article comprises two parts: the theoretical one explores the ways of progressive dynamic weighing of shipment. The practical part took place at Horní Dvořiště railway station, measuring the impact of the dynamic weighing on the decline in vehicular overloading.
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