Automated material handling for inventory management system

Authors

  • Arun Kumar Pinagapani SASTRA UNIVERSITY https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-9944
  • Abhishek G Accenture Solutions, Coimbatore
  • Athipathi S Yokogawa Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru
  • Nithin Karthik R V
  • Pragatheesh G B

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21014/actaimeko.v13i4.1728

Keywords:

automated material handling, IoT, Industry 4.0, robotic automation

Abstract

Industry 4.0 has improved productivity, facilitated work automation and simplified job augmentation. The rising deployment of robotic systems for warehouse automation is primarily responsible for the consistent growth of the Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) market. The emergence of Industry 4.0 has facilitated sustainability and ongoing technical breakthroughs. The design and construction of a material-handling prototype robot and monitoring system are described in this work. By reducing the need for humans, this system enables the effective transportation of commodities in the manufacturing area, inventory storage area, and warehouses. Robot mobility is the major emphasis of automated material handling systems, which combine mechanical and electrical components and link hardware and software. The adoption of this system is largely due to the ongoing developments in technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), which allow for the easy integration of controllers with automated material handling equipment as well as the ability to control machines using a human-machine interface (HMI) by using an application with the additional specification of visualizing the management system by the user, which will retrieve data from the machine using the thing speak platform. Furthermore, continuous automatic staking and unstacking can be achieved in a loop using queuing technology. According to the weight of the materials, using HMI one can select the appropriate slots and place it, which can able to withstand the strain of the rack for a long duration of time.

Author Biography

Arun Kumar Pinagapani, SASTRA UNIVERSITY

Arun Kumar Pinagapani received B.Tech degree from SASTRA University, India and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from PSG College of Technology, Anna University, India. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor in SEEE, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tamil Nadu, India. His research interests include Control Systemss, Robotics and Automation.

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Published

2024-11-22

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 4 (2024)

Section

Research Papers

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