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Additional effort estimation due to ergonomic conditions in order picking systems

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  • Daria Battini
  • Martina Calzavara
  • Alessandro Persona
  • Fabio Sgarbossa

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Within a warehouse, the picking activity often relies on human operators. Therefore, when designing and evaluating a manual picking system, it is important to consider that, besides the high flexibility the pickers are able to warrant, they inevitably require an additional effort due to their ergonomic working conditions. In this paper, the authors propose a new model to consider such additional effort, starting from the concepts of human availability and rest allowance. The new method allows the evaluation of the current configuration of a certain warehouse, considering two different operative situations (directly employed operators and indirectly employed ones). Moreover, it makes it possible to estimate and to understand the benefits that can be achieved by introducing some ergonomic improvements. The proposed procedure has also been applied to a real industrial case study.

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  • Daria Battini & Martina Calzavara & Alessandro Persona & Fabio Sgarbossa, 2017. "Additional effort estimation due to ergonomic conditions in order picking systems," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(10), pages 2764-2774, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:55:y:2017:i:10:p:2764-2774
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1190879
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    1. Zhuang, Yanling & Zhou, Yun & Yuan, Yufei & Hu, Xiangpei & Hassini, Elkafi, 2022. "Order picking optimization with rack-moving mobile robots and multiple workstations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 300(2), pages 527-544.
    2. Dominic Loske & Matthias Klumpp & Maria Keil & Thomas Neukirchen, 2021. "Logistics Work, Ergonomics and Social Sustainability: Empirical Musculoskeletal System Strain Assessment in Retail Intralogistics," Logistics, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-25, December.
    3. Glock, Christoph H. & Grosse, Eric H. & Abedinnia, Hamid & Emde, Simon, 2019. "An integrated model to improve ergonomic and economic performance in order picking by rotating pallets," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(2), pages 516-534.
    4. Giannikas, Vaggelis & Lu, Wenrong & Robertson, Brian & McFarlane, Duncan, 2017. "An interventionist strategy for warehouse order picking: Evidence from two case studies," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 189(C), pages 63-76.
    5. Kumar, Suryakant & Sheu, Jiuh-Biing & Kundu, Tanmoy, 2023. "Planning a parts-to-picker order picking system with consideration of the impact of perceived workload," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).

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