Due to the willingness of companies to be highly responsive to varying customer demands, the flexibility of warehouse materials handling technology has become very significance. Fast and efficient storage and retrieval of items from their rack locations is important for high throughput operations. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RSs) are widely used in modern distribution centers. Due to the relative inflexibility of the physical layout of a warehouse, it is very important to design a warehouse right the first time. This book will provide an insight for warehouse practitioners, on how to design and operate their facilities as well as present the different types of AS/RSs.
About the Author: Zaki Sari is currently a Manufacturing Engineering Professor at Aboubekr Belkaid University of Tlemcen (UABT), Algeria; and an invited Professor at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. He obtained his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Electrical Engineering, Boumerdes, Algeria in 1987; his Magister (M.Sc. with thesis) degree in power engineering from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, Algeria in 1990; and his Doctorate degree in manufacturing engineering from Tlemcen University in 2003. He also obtained a certificate in system engineering management from University of Missouri Rolla, USA, in 2003. His main domain of interest concerns the Design, Modeling, Optimization, Simulation and Control of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, logistics, etc...
Latéfa Ghomri is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Control Engineering at Tlemcen University, and a researcher in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of Tlemcen. Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on supervisory control of hybrid dynamical systems. Her research mainly concerns the simulation and modeling in manufacturing and warehousing systems; supervisory control and performance evaluation of discrete events systems.
Associate Professor, Banu Yetkin Ekren currently works as a faculty, in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Izmir University of Economics. She got her B.S. degree from the Department of Industrial (IE) Engineering at DokuzEylul Unıversity, Turkey, in 2000. She got her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the IE department at Pamukkale University, Turkey, in 2004 and at University of Louisville, USA, in 2009, respectively. Her research areas include logistics, material handling systems, stochastic modeling, simulation, supply chain management, facility design problems, warehousing.
Associate Professor, Tone Lerher, Ph.D. works at the Faculty of Logistics and at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Maribor. His habilitation refers to pedagogical topic of Technical logistics and Transport systems. In his academic career, he has been considered as a senior researcher in applied and basic research projects from the research field of Material Handling Systems and Warehousing. He is also an author and co-author of original scientific papers and scientific monographs in the field of his habilitate and research area.
Associate Professor, Goran Dukic, is currently working as a faculty in the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Zagreb(UNIZAG-FSB). He teaches various courses from the fields of logistics and industrial engineering at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies. He is a vice-president of the international board of International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL) and was a chairman of International Conference of Industrial Logistics (ICIL) 2012 and 2014. His research interests mainly focus on warehouse and material handling system design and operations.
Mohammed Adel Hamzaoui is a 23 years old PhD student at the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of Tlemcen (MELT). He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Tlemcen University, Algeria. In both degrees, he was valedictorian among more than 100 students. He was ranked among the 100 best students over 250,000 in the 2011 national senior high school final exam in Algeria. In his B.Sc. and M.Sc. senior project and theses, he dealt with flow rack AS/RS. He published one journal paper (in mechatronics) and four international conference papers related to AS/RS.
Mohammadreza Vasili received his PhD degree in industrial and systems engineering from University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, in 2010. He is now an assistant professor and has been working with Lenjan Branch, Islamic Azad University since 2010. His research and industrial experiences are in the areas of operations research, automated warehousing systems, storage systems, material handlings, transportation and logistics, modeling and simulation.
