The water used during handling and processing of milk products can be potential sources of microbial contamination with possible negative consequences on food safety. Especially, the water used in keeping the hygiene of milking and milk storage utensils is crucial to keep the quality and safety of the products. Therefore, the current study was designed to assess the bacteriological quality of w...

This paper models the sea port system with the objective of determining the optimal storage strategy and container-handling schedule. It presents an iterative search algorithm that integrates a container transfer model with a container location model in a cyclic fashion to determine both optimal locations and corresponding handling schedule. A genetic algorithm, a tabu search and a tabu search/...

This paper describes the application of dynamic simulation to evaluate material handling resource utilization for a stamping plant in the automotive industry. The other objective of this study was evaluation of throughput relative to press schedules, shift patterns, the number of material handling resources (i.e. fork truck and tugger train drivers), and storage inventory levels. This dynamic s...

We have been proposed autonomous disks to enable distributed control in the storage-centric systems. Autonomous disks configure a cluster in a network, and accepts operations using a distributed directories without any centralized server. Autonomous disks also manages load distribution, and has a capability of reconfiguring the cluster automatically. In this paper, we focus on the cluster recon...