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Conveyors, robotics, sorting and tugger train systems, automated guided vehicles and how to evaluate automation.
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Life-cycle cost analysis of a palletising automation following the lecture’s case study: equivalent headcount, annual cost comparison, net cash flow with the depreciation tax shield, and NPV at the real rate from the Fisher equation. The cumulative discounted cash flow shows the payback period against the logistics threshold of 2–3 years; a positive NPV alone is not enough.
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A four-station line with yield loss in 3D: utilisation u = λ · t per station, and the bottleneck moves from station 2 to station 4 as yield loss falls. Two live cards show cycle time over utilisation (Kingman/VUT) and Little’s law from a discrete-event simulation, right up to an unstable system.
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14 continuous conveyors as a 3D exhibition, each with moving goods. Filters for goods, position, accumulation and drive dim the conveyors that do not match, and a jam test shows the difference between accumulating and non-accumulating conveyors. In unit-load mode you pack small load carriers onto a Euro pallet and see the area used.
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The AGV exercise to work through: loaded and empty trips, handling and waiting add up to the total working time and from it the number of vehicles. Two platforms simulate single transports and accompanying transport side by side; the calculation shows every step with from-to matrix and formulas, plus the break-even processing time.
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An automated guided vehicle drives the same hall with five navigation methods from VDI 2510: inductive guide wire, magnetic or colour tape, laser with reflectors, dead reckoning with floor markers and SLAM. Put a person in the way or move a station and compare which method keeps going without rebuilding. With safety scanner, error ellipse, lidar map and a VDA 5050 message log.
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A palletising cell with infeed, robot, gripper, Euro pallet and outfeed for three case studies: cans, crates and parcels. Kinematics, gripper, stacking pattern, double station and sequencing buffer are selectable; cycle time, capacity against target, pallet change, floor space and feasibility are computed live.
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A cruise control drives up the same hill three times: with a fixed pedal, with feed-forward and with feedback control. The plot keeps one comparison curve per strategy, and the block diagram lights up setpoint, controller, actuator, plant, sensor and feedback live. With unknown load or headwind only the closed loop holds the speed.
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The five basic kinematics in L/O/R/T/V joint notation as 3D industrial robots: gantry (LOO), cylindrical (TLO), polar (TRL), SCARA (VRO) and articulated arm (TRR). Sweeping the joint limits builds the workspace as a point cloud with its hull. A second mode uses a target to show that a robot can be highly repeatable and still inaccurate.
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Example 1 from VDI 5586 in 3D: a tugger train supplies 20 line-side locations on four assembly lines from the supermarket, with coupled or decoupled loading and push or pull (kanban card, e-kanban, call button). Live figures show cycle time, train and driver utilisation, order delay and stock-outs, even while the train still has room.
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A unit-load sorting system like in a parcel hub, from the swap body via weighing, singulation and the scanner tunnel to the chutes. Topology (line, loop, circle), sorter technology (cross-belt, tilt-tray, shoe, pusher) and induction are switchable. A capacity chain shows which area limits the sorting rate: usually induction and identification, rarely the sorter.
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