Management System for the Control of the Forklifts Activity in a Factory

Pata, Sergiu Dan; Milici, Dan Laurențiu; Poienar, Mihaela; Cenusa, Mihai

doi:10.1109/mps.2019.8759782

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“…As one can understand, material handling equipment is an area that can vastly be benefited from improvements in IoT and cloud technologies. According to [24], a management system for controlling the forklift trucks in a warehouse that is based on IoT devices is presented. The IoT devices of the system are mounted on each forklift and include an Android microsystem which has an application that manages all connected modules, and an RFID device that is used to read the operator's identity on the forklift.…”

Section: Materials Handling Equipmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cloud and IoT Applications in Material Handling Automation and Intralogistics

Ponis

Efthymiou

2020

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During the last decade, digitalization has borne tremendous changes on the way we live and do business. Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution, is merging the physical, digital and virtual worlds through emerging technologies that collide with each other and create a distinctive paradigm shift. Even though the topic of Industry 4.0, has attracted significant attention during the past few years, literature in this subject area is still limited. The main objective of this paper is to study the current state of the art and identify major trends and research shortcomings. To that end, the authors conducted a methodological literature review based primarily on the SCOPUS bibliographic database. The review returned 49 relative papers dealing with the paper’s subject area. Through a thorough study of the selected papers, four dominant literature categories were recognized and discussed in detail. According to the literature reviewed, it is evident that massive changes are underway for warehouses and intralogistics facilities. Still, despite the intense discussion and appeal of the subject, one of the most important challenges in the scientific area under study, as the literature highlights, is the absence of a matching, to its significance, number of real-life applications. To that end, this paper provides a detailed description of a Cloud-based IoT application drawn from a Distribution Center (DC) that supplies retail home furnishing and sporting goods products to stores in Greece and the Balkan region, with the objective to showcase the feasibility of such an investment, highlight its potential and provide motivation to practitioners to evaluate and proceed in similar technological investments.

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Section: Materials Handling Equipmentmentioning

confidence: 99%