Advanced decision and intelligence technologies for manufacturing and logistics

Abstract

Manufacturing and logistics are globally facing transformational changes. The introduction of new technologies and the advances in equipment and intelligence capability are having profound effects on production and logistics in practice. New solutions for manufacturing and logistics are evolving to respond to various needs. In particular, production and services are transformed from vertically integrated firms for product-based business into virtual collaborations of horizontal modular partners, while huge amounts of data are increasingly accumulated due to the business integration. Recently, soft computing and decision technologies have developed to analyze field data and to generate intelligent algorithms that enable automated manufacturing and logistics systems to control thework flow,material flow, and information flow of global supply chain networks based on IC tag. By the seamless integration of intelligence and decision technologies combined with IT technology, Intelligent Manufacturing&Logistics Systems have completely changed theway we manage our factories, logistics, outsourcing, and supply