Robot-Based Supermarket—A Sustainable System Concept for Material Supply of Mixed-Model Assembly Lines

Tobias Ettengruber () and Markus Schneider ()
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Tobias Ettengruber: University of Applied Sciences
Markus Schneider: University of Applied Sciences

A chapter in Human-Centred Technology Management for a Sustainable Future, 2025, pp 69-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Supplying parts to mixed-model assembly lines is a complex logistic problem, often characterized by fatigue tasks and a low degree of automation. Emerging economic, ecological, and social challenges are forcing manufacturing companies to adopted internal material supply processes to these upcoming objectives and requires a fundamental change in system design of decentralized logistic areas. Based on a network of conventional and collaborative robots as well as a vertical-integrated system structure, this paper presents a novel concept to supply materials to mixed-model assembly lines for mass customized products such as electrical devices or automotive parts. The concept is derived, in a three-step design approach, from sustainable characteristics of logistic subsystems and enables new potentials in performance, flexibility and human-centric material supply for mixed model assembly lines.

Keywords: Collaborative robotic; Assembly line feeding; Ergonomics; Robotics; Material supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72494-7_8

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