Title: Closed form models for dwell point locations with turnover-based storage assignment policy

Authors: Faizul Huq; Trevor S. Hale; Heather S. Lutz; Nikhil A. Pujari

Addresses: Department of Management Systems, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA ' Department of Management, Marketing, and Business Administration, University of Houston – Downtown, Houston, Texas 77002, USA ' Supply Chain and Information Systems Department, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA ' Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA

Abstract: This study investigates where an idle storage-retrieval device should dwell (locate) to minimise the expected response time of its next transaction for both an automated storage/retrieval system (AS/RS) and an automated storage carousel (ASC). A review of the relevant literature showed that previous attempts to obtain the dwell point location only considered a randomised storage assignment policy. This research proposes that under a myriad of operating conditions, the problem can be formulated as a p-median location problem on a tree network to incorporate the turnover-based storage assignment policy.

Keywords: dwell point location; facility location; location science; turnover-based storage assignment policy; TBSAP.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2018.091434

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018 Vol.29 No.1, pp.62 - 73

Accepted: 18 May 2016
Published online: 01 May 2018 *

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