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| Title: | Impact of pickup/delivery stations and restoring conveyor locations on retrieval time models of flow rack AS/RS |
| Author (s): | Sari, Z. Ghouali, N. |
| Department/Lab Affiliations: | Engineering Management & Systems Engineering |
| Keywords: | Distribution & Warehousing Management Engineering Economics Logistics Manufacturing Engineering Design Production Research & Economics Quality Control & Reliabilty |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Citation: | Sari, Z., Grasman, S.E., and Ghouali, N.,"Impact of Pickup/Delivery Stations and Restoring Conveyor Locations on Retrieval Time Models of Flow Rack AS/RS", Production Planning and Control 18(2), 105-116, 2007. |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the performance of flow-rack automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) configurations considering a large mix of different product types, which has not been studied in the literature. Specifically, this paper derives expected retrieval time models by analysing the impact of pickup/delivery stations and restoring conveyor locations based on randomised storage and retrieval. From comparison of results, a number of remarks are stated and used to further work related to flow-rack AS/RS. Although flow-rack AS/RS are typically used only for a few types of items, where each bin is dedicated to a particular item, severe competition faced by manufacturing companies requires adoption of various technologies in order to provide practical solutions. These results show that flow-rack systems may be beneficial to reducing inventory levels, while maintaining product variety and responding to customers' needs in a timely manner; thus they may be used to generate realistic production schedules that lower costs and increase customer satisfaction. |
| Type: | Article - Journal text |
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| title | Impact of pickup/delivery stations and restoring conveyor locations on retrieval time models of flow rack AS/RS |
| contributor | Grasman, Scott E. |
| contributor.author | Sari, Z. |
| contributor.author | Ghouali, N. |
| contributor.deptlab | Engineering Management & Systems Engineering |
| subject | Distribution & Warehousing Management |
| subject | Engineering Economics |
| subject | Logistics |
| subject | Manufacturing Engineering Design |
| subject | Production Research & Economics |
| subject | Quality Control & Reliabilty |
| date.issued | 2007 |
| publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| identifier.citation | Sari, Z., Grasman, S.E., and Ghouali, N.,"Impact of Pickup/Delivery Stations and Restoring Conveyor Locations on Retrieval Time Models of Flow Rack AS/RS", Production Planning and Control 18(2), 105-116, 2007. |
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| description.abstract | This paper investigates the performance of flow-rack automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) configurations considering a large mix of different product types, which has not been studied in the literature. Specifically, this paper derives expected retrieval time models by analysing the impact of pickup/delivery stations and restoring conveyor locations based on randomised storage and retrieval. From comparison of results, a number of remarks are stated and used to further work related to flow-rack AS/RS. Although flow-rack AS/RS are typically used only for a few types of items, where each bin is dedicated to a particular item, severe competition faced by manufacturing companies requires adoption of various technologies in order to provide practical solutions. These results show that flow-rack systems may be beneficial to reducing inventory levels, while maintaining product variety and responding to customers' needs in a timely manner; thus they may be used to generate realistic production schedules that lower costs and increase customer satisfaction. |
| type | Article - Journal |
| type.DCMIType | text |
| type.status | Postprint |
| rights | This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. |
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| date.accessioned | 2007-04-11T17:00:48Z |
| date.available | 2008-04-14T18:06:37Z |
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