LGPMI - Automated storage and retrieval systems: a performances

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Dhiyaeddine Metahri, Khalid Hachemi
2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC), IEEE, 2017, pp. 589--594

DOI: 10.1109/ICoSC.2017.7958654

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Metahri, D., & Hachemi, K. (2017). Automated storage and retrieval systems: a performances comparison between Free-fall-flow-rack and classic flow-rack. In 2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC) (pp. 589–594). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICoSC.2017.7958654

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Metahri, Dhiyaeddine, and Khalid Hachemi. “Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems: a Performances Comparison between Free-Fall-Flow-Rack and Classic Flow-Rack.” In 2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC), 589–594. IEEE, 2017.

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Metahri, Dhiyaeddine, and Khalid Hachemi. “Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems: a Performances Comparison between Free-Fall-Flow-Rack and Classic Flow-Rack.” 2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC), IEEE, 2017, pp. 589–94, doi:10.1109/ICoSC.2017.7958654.

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@inproceedings{metahri2017a,
  title = {Automated storage and retrieval systems: a performances comparison between Free-fall-flow-rack and classic flow-rack},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE},
  pages = {589--594},
  doi = {10.1109/ICoSC.2017.7958654},
  author = {Metahri, Dhiyaeddine and Hachemi, Khalid},
  booktitle = {2017 6th International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC)}
}

Abstract

Since their introduction, automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) give a better solution for the inventory management in industrial companies and distribution centres to improve theirs performances. The main objective of the paper is to offer a performance comparison between two kinds of AS/RS (Free-Fall flow-rack and classic flow-rack), to highlight the benefits of using FF-flow-rack AS/RS in warehousing systems. Three comparison parameters has been considered: the average retrieval-travel-time, the total retrieval-travel-time, and throughput of a customer request. For this, multiple simulations are performed for different rack configurations with the same characteristics of both systems. The obtained results show that using the FF-flow-rack in place of the classic flow-rack will greatly decrease the average retrieval-travel-time and the total retrieval-travel-time of customer request. Indeed, the improvement of the throughput in the FF-flow-rack AS/RS can reach around 90% compared to the throughput in the classic flow-rack AS/RS.

Keywords

Mathematical model, Face, Throughput, Computational modeling, Control systems, Storage automation, Companies