Development directions in the planning of material handling

Abstract

Planning of material handling systems is a hard task, because of the large number of the handling variations, technology processes and the stochastic changing demands. In generally, the different planning tasks require different computer software. The research presented in this paper, targeted to develop a planning concept which can help to reduce the complexity of the general integrated planning process. After the detailed overview of the problem, we present the algorithm and the published results of the process-based planning of material handling. The described method uses the steps of the integrated planning process, however gives a followable, less complex solution scheme. This paper summarizes the published results of the researches related to this topic.