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A Framework for the Automated and Optimal Design of Vertical Lift Modules
To this day, tasks like planning and managing warehouses remain complex. Automated storage and retrieval systems have enhanced warehousing efficiency, yet designing them optimally is still challenging, despite their importance for the efficient operation of the warehouse. This article aims to present a novel framework for automating the optimal design of vertical lift modules (VLMs), focusing on tray types, quantities, and item-tray sector assignments, based on a specified inventory list. The approach accounts for VLM’s physical, manufacturing, and ergonomic constraints to ensure a manufacturable system design. To manage computational complexity, the size of the mixed-integer problem is reduced through an exact clustering of items, sectors, and layouts. The proposed framework is tested through numerical simulations using real data from an Italian VLM manufacturer.
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The IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems encompasses the fields of systems engineering, covering issue formulation, analysis, and modeling throughout the systems engineering lifecycle phases. It addresses decision-making, issue interpretation, systems management, processes, and various methods such as optimization, modeling, and simulation in the development and deployment of large systems.