Simulation analysis of shuttle based storage and retrieval systems

International Journal of Simulation Modelling

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-59

  Lerher, T ^a   Ekren, Y B ^b   Sari, Z ^c   Rosi, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Automated warehouse; Discrete event simulation; Performance analysis; Shuttle based storage and retrieval system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930669221     PISSN: 17264529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2507/IJSIMM14(1)5.281     Document Type: Article

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