A study on Mobil racks automated storage and retrieval system (M-AS/RS)

Author

Guezzen, Amine Hakim ; Sari, Z. ; Ghomri, L.

Author_Institution

Manuf. Eng. Lab. of Tlemcen (MELT), Univ. Abou Bakr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algeria

fYear

2011

fDate

3-5 March 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Our work consists in studying a storage system with Mobil racks (M-AS/RS) which are a variation of the multi aisles AS/RS. This system consists of storage racks moving laterally on rails so that one can open an aisle between any two joint racks, storage/retrieval (S/R) machines, the control system and an input/output (I/O) station. In this paper, our interest was concerned with the mathematical modeling of the average cycle time of the (S/R) machine which is an important criteria of performances for these systems. We developed a continuous analytical expression allowing an approximate calculation of the cycle time of a Mobil -AS/RS. This expression was compared with an existing exact discrete expression.

Keywords

continuous systems; discrete systems; materials handling; storage automation; I/O station; Mobil racks; continuous model; control system; discrete model; input-output station; material handling; retrieval machines; retrieval system; storage machines; storage racks; storage system; Barium; Computational fluid dynamics; Field-flow fractionation; M-AS/RS; Mobil rack; single and dual cycle times;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computing and Control Applications (CCCA), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9795-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCCA.2011.6031446

Filename

6031446