Analytic properties of two-carousel systems

DOI10.1017/S0269964812000307MaRDI QIDQ4929138zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruben Bossier, M. Vlasiou, Ivo Adan

Publication date 13 June 2013

Published in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6928

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

Abstract: We present analytic results for warehouse systems involving pairs of carousels. Specifically, for various picking strategies, we show that the sojourn time of the picker satisfies an integral equation that is a contraction mapping. As a result, numerical approximations for performance measures such as the throughput of the system are extremely accurate and converge fast (e.g. within 5 iterations) to their real values. We present simulation results validating our results and examining more complicated strategies for pairs of carousels.

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