Material efficiency (ME) strategies are pursued by governments and companies to reduce environmental emissions, improve supply chain resilience, enhance cost competitiveness. flow analysis (MFA) methods useful quantify raw material stocks flows assess the potential impacts of ME strategies. Although popularity MFA is increasing, there methodological limitations that hinder its use as a decision...

This paper addresses the problem of generic planning and control of Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHSs). We build upon previous work in this research direction to provide a proof of concept for generic control of AMHSs in different application areas. We present a generic control architecture for AMHSs, and apply this architecture to a material flow model with storage and sorter systems....

the immiscible displacement of oil by water through a porous and permeable reservoir rock can be described by the use of a fractional flow curves (fw versus sw). water flooding project parameters can be obtained from the fractional flow curve. however, developing a representative fractional flow curve for a specific reservoir can be quite challenging when fluid and special core analysis data is...

Purpose – In spite of having a number of general-purpose algorithms for solving plant layout problems, facility planners may still face a challenging task to adjust these algorithms to handle special, but not uncommon, layout problems. The purpose of this study is to propose a new method for addressing the impact of overhead space utilization on a plant layout solution. Design/methodology/appro...

Due to increase in the number of goods carrying tricycles, the amount of noise and pollution on our roads has increased. To optimize the control of the engine noise emission for tricycle, different absorptive material liners have been introduced into muffler design. In this study, the performance of Aerogel, Ceramic, Kenaf fibre, Polyester and Rockwool as absorptive material liners on the trans...

today the domain of competition in production and operation has been changed to supply chains for independent firms. in this problem material flow is very important among three flows, financial, information and materials. traditional approach is dominated in supply, production and distribution planning at most iranian industrial cooperation. it means that each of these unit are planning their a...