Paper Info
Title
Simulation of an Automated Warehouse for Steel Tubes
Abstract
The paper presents a software which simulates an existing automated warehouse of steel tubes, including all the movements of the tubes packs conveyors as well as the management of all the operations for their storage and recovery for delivery to customers. The reason to develop such simulator lies in the needing to test new stocking strategies, that could overcome the drawback of the ones which are already implemented in the current system. Such strategies and their possible improvements are presented and discussed. As the simulator elaborates as inputs the real data of the tubes production and customer orders exactly in the format in which they are processed by the real automated warehouse management, realistic simulations are possible. Numerical results are shown, which demonstrates that the proposed improvements in the tube packs allocation and reordering successfully increase the warehouse capacity and efficiency through an improved exploitation of the available space.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/UKSIM.2008.20
Cambridge, UK
Keywords
Field
DocType
real automated warehouse management,customer order,warehouse capacity,steel tubes,current system,existing automated warehouse,available space,simulator elaborates,tubes production,automated warehouse,possible improvement,logistics,optimization,system testing,computational modeling,production systems,computer simulation,industrial automation,simulation,manufacturing industries,investments,simulation software
Drawback,Warehouse,Manufacturing,System testing,Computer science,Simulation,Control engineering,Conference management,Automation,Software,Warehouse management,Reliability engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2381-4772
0-7695-3114-8
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.45
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valentina Colla115929.50
Gianluca Nastasi2254.61
Nicola Matarese3184.12
Ucci, Andrea440.45