The paper highlights advantages of enterprise GIS (Geographic Information Systems), describes guidelines for its implementation, and its position in the overall IT (Information Technology) environment. The paper outlines the tools and necessary steps for creation of data model, as a core of a spatial database, as well as business processes whose computerization enterprise GIS can leverage. In this context, requirements of interfacing enterprise GIS with other information system are defined, so that enterprise GIS can contribute to better business decisions and management of a utility.

High reliability and high availability are essential aspects for all critical elements used in automotive applications. This is particularly true for control and steering systems. In this regard, numerous steer by wire (x-by-wire) concepts were developed over the years. Most of them considered only standard single microcontroller system architectures with a low degree of reliability according to international reliability and safety standards. This paper presents a novel concept for a degradable safety controller for steer-by-wire systems. Based on a safety-related 1004-architecture, the presented concept offers higher safety, reliability and availability.

Minimization of the operational costs, flexibility of the labor force and efficiency of all processes are increasingly important issues for every warehouse. Out of all processes, order picking is recognized to be the most costly activity and therefore tends to get the most attention. Increased productivity, reduction of cycle time, and enhanced accuracy are major objectives considered in designing an order picking operation. In this paper, a solution to the very specific challenge of efficient picking high volume / small parts orders was presented. The purpose of the research was to develop such high volume / small orders / small parts order picking systems in which multiple customer orders could be progressively picked and assembled, pick-and-pass technique utilized, and no sortation equipment is required. With the presented solution, it is possible to reduce cost and time to process a wave of orders by eliminating a distance traveled by order picker, reducing a retrieval time per item and replenishment costs.

Increasingly important issues for every organization in the warehousing business are to achieve a high efficiency of all processes, minimize operational costs and maximize flexibility of the labor force. Among all processes, order picking is recognized to be the most significant and most costly activity and therefore tends to get the most attention. Key objectives in designing an order picking operation include increases in productivity and accuracy, and reduction of cycle time and replenishment costs. The aim of this article is to present a proposal of improved wave planning processes and modifications to the wave planning technique. With those modifications it is possible to reduce cost and time to process a wave by reducing the distance traveled by an order picker, the retrieval time per item and the replenishment costs.

Minimization of the operational costs, flexibility of the labor force and efficiency of all processes are increasingly important issues for every warehouse. Of all processes, order picking is recognized to be the most costly activity and therefore tends to get the most attention. Key objectives in designing an order picking operation include increases in productivity, reduction of cycle time, and increases in accuracy. The aim of this article is to present our proposal of improved wave planning process and modifications to the wave planning technique. With those modifications it is possible to reduce cost and time to process a wave by reducing distance traveled by order picker, retrieval time per item and replenishment costs.

New application areas such as application web services, eCommerce, and peer-to-peer computing call for robust software systems with open architectures and efficient use of resources available in the environment in which they operate. To build such systems, it is very important to have mechanisms for communication, negotiation, and coordination between software components. Multi-agent system technologies and methodologies offer a guidance and support in building such software systems. The agent-oriented approach to software development is still in the transition from prototyping, done by researchers in the academic communities, to the development of large-scale industrial-strength applications by software professionals. For this to succeed, methodologies are needed to systematically guide and support developers through the various stages of system development. In the recent past, more than a dozen methodologies have been proposed, offering a range of modeling concepts, techniques for analysis, and tools for support. In this paper the application of agent unified modeling language (AUML) to warehouse management systems is presented.