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.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Eindhoven |
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| Publisher | EURANDOM |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
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| Externally published | Yes |
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| Name | Eurandom preprint series |
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| No. | 2011-031 |
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