Travel time models for automated warehouses with aisle transferring storage and retrieval machine

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 571-583

  Lerher, Tone ^a   Potrč, Iztok ^a   Šraml, Matjaž ^a   Tollazzi, Tomaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Automated storage and retrieval systems; Logistics; Multi aisle system; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; ANALYTICAL MODELING; AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILITY THEORY; SIMULATION MODEL; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME MODEL;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WAREHOUSES;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77649337377     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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