Warehousing and Material Handling Systems for the Digital Industry: The New Challenges for the Digital Circular Economy

Manzini, Riccardo, Accorsi, Riccardo

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-25
  • 售價: $9,590
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$9,111
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 500
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031502728
  • ISBN-13: 9783031502729
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商品描述

This book illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics. It provides a collection of cutting-edge issues commonly faced in warehousing systems worldwide, along with a structured set of methodologies and technological solutions to address them.


Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) are pivotal processes within supply chain and production systems. They involve the handling, consolidation, and storage of goods such as raw materials, parts, components, and finished products within distribution centers. WMH is also a key component of distribution networks, serving as a hierarchy of facilities dedicated to receiving materials from vendors and shipping to customers while meeting service level and performance targets.


The book offers readers the opportunity to explore this topic from multiple knowledge levels and perspectives. At the basic level, it introduces readers to the problems, issues, nomenclature, fundamental models, and methods to support the decision-making process. At an intermediate level, it delves into the state-of-the-art on critical issues in warehousing and material handling systems. Finally, at an advanced level, it delves into the most challenging and recent research and industry issues, addressing both providers and users of WMH solutions and technologies.


The book's intended audience includes undergraduate students, graduate students, PhD students, post-doc researchers, scholars, and researchers from academia and industry. It is also relevant for practitioners and managers working in production, logistics, and supply chain environments. The authors' approach is multidisciplinary, with a special focus on logistics, automation, optimization, safety, ergonomics, and the overall sustainability of WMH systems and operations.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書介紹了創新的支援決策模型、方法和先進的自動化和機器人技術,旨在提高倉儲和物料處理(WMH)的整體性能,包括時間和空間效率、服務水平、勞動安全和人體工學。它提供了一系列在全球倉儲系統中常見的尖端問題,以及一套結構化的方法和技術解決方案來應對這些問題。

倉儲和物料處理(WMH)是供應鏈和生產系統中至關重要的過程。它們涉及在配送中心內處理、整合和儲存原材料、零部件和成品等物品。WMH還是配送網絡的關鍵組成部分,作為一個層次結構的設施,專門用於從供應商接收材料並發貨給客戶,同時滿足服務水平和性能目標。

本書為讀者提供了從多個知識層次和角度探索這一主題的機會。在基礎層次上,它向讀者介紹了支援決策過程的問題、問題、術語、基本模型和方法。在中級層次上,它深入探討了倉儲和物料處理系統中的關鍵問題的最新研究成果。最後,在高級層次上,它深入探討了最具挑戰性和最新的研究和行業問題,涉及WMH解決方案和技術的提供者和使用者。

本書的目標讀者包括本科生、研究生、博士生、博士後研究人員、學者和來自學術界和工業界的研究人員。對於在生產、物流和供應鏈環境中工作的從業人員和管理人員也具有相關性。作者的方法是多學科的,特別關注物流、自動化、優化、安全、人體工學以及WMH系統和運營的整體可持續性。

作者簡介

Riccardo Manzini is a full professor of Logistics, Material Handling, and Facility Planning at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy. He is the director of the "Warehousing Center at UniBO", which deals with all critical issues affecting the handling and storage of materials. He is a member of the core faculty of the international Bologna Business School - BBS at the Alma Mater Studiorum, teaching in some Executive Master and MBA programs.

He works in industrial plants, logistics, maintenance, packaging, and agro-food. His research interests include material handling, storage and warehousing systems, supply chain optimization, digital twin and expert systems for logistics and operations, maintenance and reliability engineering, and food supply chain.

He has coordinated several industrial research and technology transfer projects for private and public companies in the manufacturing sector, automation and robotics industry, packaging machinery industry, 3PL and 4PL, agro-food sector, etc.

He is the author of more than 200 research manuscripts on the design, management, control, and optimization of production systems, emphasizing the development and application of models and methods to support the optimization of the decision-making process. He is the author of some international books, including for Springer "Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain" and "Maintenance for Industrial Systems".


Riccardo Accorsi is Associate Professor of Sustainable Operations and Logistics and Production Management and Optimization at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in the Department of Industrial Engineering. His research falls within the broad field of operations management and industrial logistic systems through the design and development of tailored Decision-Support Systems (DSS) and digital twins, optimization, simulation, machine learning techniques. His main research interests concern warehousing, material handlingand packaging systems and sustainable food supply chain networks. He is recipient of the 2018 Sustainability Young Investigator Award, and Principal Investigator and WP leader of funded National (PRIN - NEXTCART) and European (Horizon - R3PACK) Projects, respectively.

He has a ten-years' experience in consulting for numerous industrial applied research projects in 3PL, food, automotive, machinery, manufacturing, and packaging industries. He is author of more than 100 indexed publications and co-editor of two international books on Food Supply Chain design, planning and control.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Riccardo Manzini是義大利博洛尼亞大學(Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna)的物流、物料處理和設施規劃的全職教授。他是“UniBO倉儲中心”的主任,該中心處理所有影響物料處理和儲存的關鍵問題。他是國際博洛尼亞商學院(Bologna Business School - BBS)的核心教師之一,教授一些高階碩士和MBA課程。

他在工業廠房、物流、維護、包裝和農食領域工作。他的研究興趣包括物料處理、儲存和倉儲系統、供應鏈優化、數字孿生和物流和運營的專家系統、維護和可靠性工程以及食品供應鏈。他協調了幾個工業研究和技術轉移項目,為製造業、自動化和機器人行業、包裝機械行業、第三方物流和第四方物流、農食行業等私營和公共公司。

他是200多篇關於生產系統設計、管理、控制和優化的研究論文的作者,強調開發和應用模型和方法來支持決策過程的優化。他是一些國際書籍的作者,包括Springer出版的《全球供應鏈中的倉儲》和《工業系統的維護》。

Riccardo Accorsi是博洛尼亞大學(Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna)工業工程系的可持續運營和物流、生產管理和優化的副教授。他的研究屬於運營管理和工業物流系統的廣泛領域,通過設計和開發定制的決策支持系統(DSS)和數字孿生、優化、模擬、機器學習技術。他的主要研究興趣涉及倉儲、物料處理和包裝系統以及可持續食品供應鏈網絡。他是2018年可持續性年輕研究者獎的獲獎者,並且是獲得資助的國家(PRIN - NEXTCART)和歐洲(Horizon - R3PACK)項目的首席研究員和工作包負責人。

他在第三方物流、食品、汽車、機械、製造和包裝行業的許多工業應用研究項目中擁有十年的咨詢經驗。他是100多篇索引出版物的作者,並且是兩本關於食品供應鏈設計、規劃和控制的國際書籍的共同編輯者。