Airport Baggage Handling Systems

ISBN-13: 9781032559254 / Miękka / 2023 / 206 str.

Brahim Rekiek

Opis

Airport Baggage Handling Systems introduces the concept of the Baggage Factory, an Industry 4.0 based approach that simplifies and automates baggage handling processes.

Spis treści

Part I – Introduction. 1. Introduction. 2. Airports – Baggage Handling Factory. 3. Ergonomics. 4. Baggage Handling System Design. Part II - From Intra-Logistics to Airport BHS. 5. Baggage Storage Systems. 6. Individual Carrier Systems. 7. The Automatic Packing Cell. 8. The Batch Build Concept. 9. The Resource Planning. 10. The Service Vehicle Management. 11. The BHS Disaster Management. Part III – Tools. 12. The Lean Principles. 13. Decision-Aid Techniques. 14. Optimisation and Artificial Intelligence. 15. Systems Simulation. 16. The Big data. Part IV – Challenges. 17. The Epilogue.

O autorze

Dr Brahim Rekiek earned his license in Physics from the Université Abdel Malek Essaadi, Morocco, in 1993, his D.E.S. in products and robotics in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence in 2000 from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has worked for more than 20 years at Fabricom Airports Systems and Beumer in the main sectors of airport BHS, and Automotive and Logistics. He has experience in a variety of projects related to the design and analysis of baggage handling systems for airports worldwide, including tasks such as layout, capacity analysis, and simulation. Dr Brahim has published many scientific papers on the subject of optimisation, design, and layout and has supervised many scholars and industrial research projects in the last 20 years as well as published one book.