Data-Driven Transportation Planning for a Large Manufacturing Plant: Analysis and development of a planning support tool for the internal transportation at Tata Steel IJmuiden

Planning the on-site transportation of large manufacturing sites is a complex process. Currently these plans are made based on the on-site logistics constraints rather than on KPIs. Research has been focused on either analysis of system parameters or generally on KPIs, but lacks the combination of both on real-life cases. This gap is closed by...

Optimal Control for Mixed Traffic Inter-Terminal Transport

The control of a dedicated ITT system operating human driven MTSs and AGVs can be centralized, decentralized or distributed. The objective of this research is to find which controller structure is best suited for controlling a mixed traffic ITT system. In doing so, performance differences will be reviewed to gain insight into the effect of...