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
Received: 27 Feb 2015
Accepted: 18 May 2016
Published online: 01 May 2018 *