Material Handling (MH) consists in the movement and storage of parts, in a manufacturing or distribution process, from one location to another. Material Handling Systems (MHSs) are everywhere in production plants, assembly ...

Discrete Event System (DES) are systems whose behavior is governed by discrete events occurring asynchronously over time and solely responsible for generating state transitions. DESs are particularly used in the field of ...

The manufacturing industry is very diverse and covers a wide range of specific processes ranging from extracting minerals to assembly of very complex products such as planes or computers, with all intermediate processing ...