TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Urru, Augusto A1 - Bonini, Marco A1 - Echelmeyer, Wolfgang ED - Ferrara, Antonella T1 - Planning and dimensioning of a milk-run transportation system considering the actual line consumption JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine / IFAC, International Federation of Automatic Control N2 - The appeal of a forklift-free shop floor is pushing enterprises towards lean logistic systems and tugger trains are becoming popular means of supply in intensive material handling production systems. Planning a tugger train system is a complex task influenced by a large set of interrelated parameters. The only standard available to help the planner in designing the tugger train logistic system is the draft norm VDI 5586 (April 2016). However this norm is only applicable under a set of restricting assumptions. In this paper a methodology to complement the approach proposed by the VDI is introduced and then applied to a numerical example. The results are briefly presented and discussed before suggesting forthcoming research. KW - milk-run KW - planning KW - tugger train KW - lean logistics KW - buffer dimension KW - reordering method Y1 - 2018 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-19208 SN - 2405-8963 SS - 2405-8963 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.066 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.066 VL - 51 IS - 9 SP - 404 EP - 409 S1 - 6 PB - International Federation of Automatic Control CY - Laxenburg ER -