Sustainable storage assignment and dwell-point policies for automated storage and retrieval systems

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 511-520

  Meneghetti, Antonella ^a   Monti, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

AS RS; dwell point policies; energy efficiency; picking time; storage location assignment

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; DIFFERENT SHAPES; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; PICKING TIME; STORAGE ASSIGNMENT; STORAGE LOCATION ASSIGNMENTS; WAREHOUSE OPERATION; WAREHOUSE OPTIMISATION;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CRANES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; WAREHOUSES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84877938919     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2011.637525     Document Type: Article

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