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Digital Library of the
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Title: |
Warehouse
Simulation Through Model Configuration |
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Authors: |
Jacques Verriet,
Roelof Hamberg, Jurjen Caarls, Bruno van Wijngaarden |
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(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
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Jacques
Verriet, Roelof Hamberg, Jurjen Caarls, Bruno van Wijngaarden
(2013). Warehouse Simulation Through Model Configuration, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0629 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0629 |
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Abstract: |
The pre-build development of
warehouse systems leads from a specific customer request to a specific
customer quotation. This involves a process of configuring a warehouse system
using a sequence of steps that contain increasingly more details. Simulation
is a helpful tool in analyzing warehouse design alternatives, but setting up a
detailed simulation is too expensive early in the development process. We
show that configurable simulation models can be applied early in the development
process with a good cost/benefit ratio. We present a warehouse simulation
model that can be configured with customer and topology information and decision
algorithms. We show that the simulation results are similar to those of
detailed simulations while a warehouse simulation can be configured with
little effort and the simulations run fast enough to support sensitivity
analysis and design-space exploration. |
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