SHEN Changpeng1,WU Yaohua1,*,and ZHOU Chen2 1 School of Control Science and Engineering,Shandong University,Jinan 250061,China 2 School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta,GA 30332,USA
Abstract:
The existing research of sequential zoning system and simultaneous zoning system mainly focuses on some optimization problems such as workload balance,product assignment and simulation for each system separately.But there is little research on comparative study between sequential zoning and simultaneous zoning.In order to help the designers to choose the suitable zoning policy for picker-to-parts system reasonably and quickly,a systemic selection method is presented.Essentially,both zoning and batching are ...