Full Description
This book illustrates innovative support-decision models, methods, and advanced automation and robotic technologies aimed at enhancing the overall performance of Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) in terms of time and space efficiency, service levels, labor safety, and ergonomics. It provides a collection of cutting-edge issues commonly faced in warehousing systems worldwide, along with a structured set of methodologies and technological solutions to address them.
Warehousing and Material Handling (WMH) are pivotal processes within supply chain and production systems. They involve the handling, consolidation, and storage of goods such as raw materials, parts, components, and finished products within distribution centers. WMH is also a key component of distribution networks, serving as a hierarchy of facilities dedicated to receiving materials from vendors and shipping to customers while meeting service level and performance targets.
The book offers readers the opportunity to explore this topic from multiple knowledge levels and perspectives. At the basic level, it introduces readers to the problems, issues, nomenclature, fundamental models, and methods to support the decision-making process. At an intermediate level, it delves into the state-of-the-art on critical issues in warehousing and material handling systems. Finally, at an advanced level, it delves into the most challenging and recent research and industry issues, addressing both providers and users of WMH solutions and technologies.
The book's intended audience includes undergraduate students, graduate students, PhD students, post-doc researchers, scholars, and researchers from academia and industry. It is also relevant for practitioners and managers working in production, logistics, and supply chain environments. The authors' approach is multidisciplinary, with a special focus on logistics, automation, optimization, safety, ergonomics, and the overall sustainability of WMH systems and operations.
Contents
Warehouse layouts in picker-to-parts order picking systems: an overview of design alternatives and planning problems.- Principles and fundamentals of the PRP: Time and distance matrices for algorithms in the picker routing problem.- Order Batches Approaches in Warehouses with Low-level Picker-to-parts Systems: A Practical Perspective on Picking Optimization Methods.- Order Batching and Batch Scheduling in an Order Picking System.- Mathematical models for the warehouse reassignment problem.- Systematic Warehouse Planning - SWP: A complete procedure for assessment of an order-picking system.- Optimization of space utilization for a man-on-board AS/RS through applying modular cells: A case study of a spare parts warehouse.- Order Picking in Rack Moving Mobile Robot Systems.- Autonomous mobile robots for material handling in intralogistics.- Autonomous Mobile Robots and Their Integration Into the Order-Picking Process.- Mobile Robots and Autonomous Indoor Navigation.- Design and operation of single- and multi-deep Shuttle-based Storage and Retrieval Systems (SBS/RS).- Storage space efficiency in deep-lane autonomous vehicle storage and retrieval system.- Robotic systems for Material Handling: Design Framework and Digital Twins.- Flexible layouts for the mixed-model assembly of heterogeneous vehicles.- A framework to design a scalable and reliable indoor positioning system (IPS) for industrial applications.- Working in warehouses with adverse microclimatic conditions: technical solutions and evaluation models.- Performance assessment in order picking systems: a visual double cross-analysis.
