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A note on worker blocking in narrow-aisle order picking systems when pick time is non-deterministic

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  • Pratik Parikh
  • Russell Meller

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The focus of this work is to develop analytical models to estimate worker blocking in narrow-aisle order picking systems. The situation with deterministic pick times has already been reported in the literature but the case with non-deterministic pick times remains an open question. Models that use a non-deterministic pick time for cases where the pick:walk-time ratios are 1:1 and ∞:1 are presented. It is shown that the results obtained using deterministic pick times are in fact sensitive to this assumption.

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  • Pratik Parikh & Russell Meller, 2010. "A note on worker blocking in narrow-aisle order picking systems when pick time is non-deterministic," IISE Transactions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(6), pages 392-404.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uiiexx:v:42:y:2010:i:6:p:392-404
    DOI: 10.1080/07408170903171043
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