RT Book, Section
T1 Simulation of working procedures in a distribution centre
A1 Santos Peñas, Matilde
A1 Cruz García, Jesús Manuel de la
AB This simulation study has been developed to assess a set of realistic proposals of a new distribution centre to a pharmaceutical company, with a focus on the sorting operation. Different sorting strategies, establishing dynamic assignment of the lanes to destinations and lanes to operators are proposed. Also different packing procedures have been presented according to the operator way of working. New qualitative criterions have been defined to evaluate the strategies. The results show some interesting non-linear behaviour in the sorting operation, and give the number of required operators, length of the lanes, and working procedures to be used in this application. The simulation experiments show that the improvement in the overall productivity by choosing a specific sorting strategy can be significant. The study has helped the management of the involved company to make a decision about the supplier and actually, the suggested proposals are being implemented in practice.
PB IEEE
SN 0-7803-7937-3
YR 2003
FD 2003
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60844
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60844
LA eng
NO © 2003 IEEE. IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (9th. Sep 16-19, 2003. Lisboa, Portugal).
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025