Warehouse Optimization: Energy Efficient Layout and Design

Ivan Derpich, Juan M. Sepúlveda, Rodrigo Barraza and Fernanda Castro
Additional contact information
Ivan Derpich: Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 916000, Chile
Juan M. Sepúlveda: Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 916000, Chile
Rodrigo Barraza: Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 916000, Chile
Fernanda Castro: Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 916000, Chile

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 10, 1-17

Abstract: It has been widely demonstrated by many research works that the distribution of a factory can condition its productivity. Because of this, a factory in Santiago, Chile, asked the authors for advice to evaluate the current situation in the company and what alternatives could be proposed to improve performance by increasing productivity without incurring too high costs. Among the most important requirements requested was a study of the current design of the raw materials warehouse within the plant since this is a main pillar in the design of the plant. For this purpose, the current layout ws analyzed and alternative designs were proposed under two scenarios: use the same area that is currently available or make the design from scratch considering land purchases to build the warehouse. In order to give a precise answer to many possible design decisions, formulations were developed and deduced to calculate the optimal dimensions of the warehouse, and qualitative criteria were incorporated for decision making.

Keywords: design; warehouse; efficient; energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/10/1705/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/10/1705/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:10:y:2022:i:10:p:1705-:d:817164

Access Statistics for this article

Mathematics is currently edited by Ms. Emma He

More articles in Mathematics from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().