Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been widely used in supporting the logistics management on manufacturing shopfloors where production resources attached with RFID facilities are converted into smart manufacturing objects (SMOs) which are able to sense, interact, and reason to create a ubiquitous environment. Within such environment, enormous data could be collected and used for support...

Every year, 3 million newborns die within the first month of life. Birth asphyxia and other breathing-related conditions are a leading cause of mortality during the neonatal phase. Current diagnostic methods are too sophisticated in terms of equipment, required expertise, and general logistics. Consequently, early detection of asphyxia in newborns is very difficult in many parts of the world, e...

The concept of Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is emerging from the so-called Rapid Prototyping technologies where additive rather than subtractive techniques will be used to make parts or even completed assemblies. As no tooling is required, one of the main benefits of RM will be the ability to make cost-effective custom products that could all be entirely individualised to a particular consumer or u...

Cross-docking is a an important logistics strategy in which freight is unloaded from inbound vehicles and directly loaded into outbound vehicles, with little or no storage in between. This study considers a crossdocking system which combines the vehicle routing problem with crossdocking (VRPCD) for both inbound and outbound operations and truck sequencing problem at docks. The objective is to m...

The Royal Air Force Logistics Information Technology System (LITS) is a ten year United Kingdom procurement programme to provide the Royal Air Force with a fully integrated IT system covering its Supply and Engineering functions. It will hold and process classified information and thus requires an IT security policy. Although a single integrated system, it will service many distinct locations a...

With the fast development of the global economy, how to deliver the right products to the end-users in the demanding time and places becomes more and more important to the enterprises. In order to improve the competitive advantages, Chinese enterprises, especially the large manufacturers, need to develop e-logistics function and modern supply chain management systems. This paper describes the c...

The article discusses the principles of building integrated transport and logistics systems. Examples implementation these in field activities functioning public are given

This paper presents an approach to simulate complex hierarchical process chains resulting from large logistics networks in OMNeT++, a discrete event simulation environment designed for communication networks. For this purpose OMNeT++ has been integrated as a new simulation engine into the ProC/B toolset which is designed for the analysis and optimization of large logistics networks. The paper h...