Impact of pickup/delivery stations and restoring conveyor locations on retrieval time models of flow-rack automated storage and retrieval systems

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-116

  Sari, Z ^a   Grasman, S E ^b   Ghouali, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^b Missouri University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated storage and retrieval systems; Manufacturing automation; Production systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; RESTORING CONVEYOR LOCATIONS;

AUTOMATION; CONVEYORS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 33847335953     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280600909494     Document Type: Article

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