With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

The increasing competition among industries has leveraged the emergence of various tools
and methods for maintenance decision-making support. This paper identifies in literature the …

The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is
one of the most powerful quality improvement methodologies, nearly two-thirds of the Lean …

In recent years, more and more automobile producers adopted the supermarket-concept to
enable a flexible and reliable Just-in-Time (JIT) part supply of their mixed-model assembly …

In the automotive industry, a supermarket is a decentralized in-house logistics area for
intermediately storing parts in direct vicinity of the assembly line consuming these parts. In a …

Due to exorbitant product variety, very limited space, and other factors, organizing efficient
and timely deliveries of parts and subassemblies to final assembly within the factory is one …

The fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation of consumer markets require
contemporary manufacturers to rethink and reshape their business models to deal with the …

Purpose Optimizing material handling within the factory is one of the key problems of
modern assembly line systems. The purpose of this paper is to focus on simultaneously …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a literature review on parts feeding policies
and to provide the components of parts feeding systems via a classification structure …

The rise of advanced manufacturing technology has led to enhanced, efficient material
handling equipment in manufacturing and container terminal environments. In order to …