Warehousing 4.0 by using shuttlebased storage and retrieval systems

Abstract

Warehousing 4.0 represents a new area of storing and retrieving goods by using shuttle-based storage and retrieval systems instead of fixed crane automated warehouses. Travel-time model that considers the real operating characteristics of the shuttle carrier and the elevator's lifting table, has been used. Assuming uniform distributed storage locations and the probability theory, expressions for the expected cycle time of the elevator's lifting table and the shuttle carrier have been presented. For the performance analysis of the shuttle-based storage and retrieval system, the method called design of experiments has been used, from which the performance of the shuttle-based storage and retrieval system can be evaluated.