Reliability of koon type material handling systems

Abstract

The design of logistics and material handling systems includes a wide range of design aspects: costs, capacity utilization, flexibility, transparency, ecology. The reliability has a great impact on these design aspects. The reliability of logistics and supply chain solutions has become more and more importance. There is an increasing demand for reducing investment and operation costs while reliability of systems and processes must be improved. The presented research work involves the description of k-out-of-n types of material handling systems. The objective is to study and evaluate the effect of system elements on the reliability of material handling systems. Also, it has been established that material handling machines can be analyzed as systems of machines elements.