TY - GEN
T1 - Energy-Aware Models for Warehousing Operations
AU - Anand, Vidyuth
AU - Lee, Seokgi
AU - Prabhu, Vittaldas V.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - There is a growing need in industries worldwide to become more sustainable and energy efficient. Due to rapid increase in demand of goods, there has been a rise in demand of logistics and operational services. This necessitates needs for a large number of warehouses and distribution centers to satisfy demand. It is imperative that warehouses follow the same sustainable development model practiced in other industries. This paper extends energy efficiency techniques suggested for manufacturing to warehousing. Specifically, warehouses are modeled as M/M/c queues where forklifts are servers and this model is used to evaluate performance of energy control policies. The model is then extended to general distribution queues. Experiments based on real-world data yield results that indicate that for system utilization values between 40% and 100%, as the number of servers in the system increases by a factor of 4, energy consumption increases by a factor of 3.78.
AB - There is a growing need in industries worldwide to become more sustainable and energy efficient. Due to rapid increase in demand of goods, there has been a rise in demand of logistics and operational services. This necessitates needs for a large number of warehouses and distribution centers to satisfy demand. It is imperative that warehouses follow the same sustainable development model practiced in other industries. This paper extends energy efficiency techniques suggested for manufacturing to warehousing. Specifically, warehouses are modeled as M/M/c queues where forklifts are servers and this model is used to evaluate performance of energy control policies. The model is then extended to general distribution queues. Experiments based on real-world data yield results that indicate that for system utilization values between 40% and 100%, as the number of servers in the system increases by a factor of 4, energy consumption increases by a factor of 3.78.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_48
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_48
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906926882
SN - 9783662447352
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 390
EP - 397
BT - Advances in Production Management Systems
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2014
Y2 - 20 September 2014 through 24 September 2014
ER -