Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 denotes a fundamental change on how production and business in general is perceived and organized. This paper questions the role of logistics within this context and raises a claim for a central role in future. It is a revision of a current position...

Decentral production control plays a crucial role within the paradigm of Industry 4.0. Due to the fast and flexible decisions on allocation and sequencing required by this type of control, there is no baseline production schedule in advance. This creates a dilemma for efficient staff deployment...

With the application of in-house logistics automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems for transportation three different control problems arise: task assignment, empty vehicle balancing and routing. With an increasing fleet size and especially when considering requirements like flexibility and...

The paper at hand presents a definition of autonomous intralogistics systems and a classification of intralogistics systems with regard to their degree of autonomy. Intralogistics -; a complex interplay of different logistics functions - covers the organization, control, execution and...

This paper investigates a scheduling approach for Automated Guided Vehicle Systems, enabling transport load transfers between vehicles during transport execution. The vehicles can use predefined transfer stations to buffer transport loads until the transport continues by a following vehicle. The...