Closed form models for dwell point locations in a multi-aisle automated storage and retrieval system

Trevor S. Hale, Michael E. Hanna, Faizul Huq and Adrian Gil

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2015, vol. 19, issue 3, 364-388

Abstract: This study investigates the optimal dwell point location of idle server within a multi-aisle automated storage and retrieval system. The objective function herein is to minimise the expected value of the next transaction time for the automated storage and retrieval system. After a brief review of the relevant literature on dwell point location, this research shows that the single server, multi-aisle dwell point location problem can be solved via an application of classical optimisation of a special class of Tchebychev expected distance functions.

Keywords: dwell point locations; Tchebychev; expected distance functions; automated storage; retrieval systems; multi-aisle AS/RS; closed form models; modelling; idle servers; optimisation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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