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Materials handling centre: making business more efficient

In his PhD thesis entitled Developing New Methods for Efficient Container Stacking Operations, Amir Hossein Gharehgozli argues that port and terminal authorities can indeed optimise their stacking operations.

Onderdeel van het seminar: "Innoveren: hoe pak je dat aan?"

Participants gathered to provide an answer to several questions regarding the state of innovations in the field of internal logistics.

Hoe staat het met de innovaties op het gebied van interne logistiek? Discussieer mee!

René de Koster, Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, and Professor Yugang Yu (USTC) have won a grant of € 48,000 for their joint research project into storage systems, from the China Exchange Programme of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW).

In the summer of 2009, journalist Marcel te Lindert wondered out loud why it was that there were more questions raised about safety issues in warehousing than there were answers. It was about time for a serious scientific study into the effectiveness of safety systems. René de Koster, Daan Stam and Bert Balk took up the challenge.

Warehousing accidents can have huge consequences that reach far beyond the confines of the facility in which they happen. However, how effective are the safety systems that need to prevent these accidents from happening?