Purpose

The kitting feeding policy creates kits with the parts of each product to assemble. Each kit contains elements with heterogeneous physical properties imposing heterogeneous logistic facilities and management solutions for storage and handling. The purpose of this paper is to present and apply a two-step procedure to design the part warehouse layout and to assign locations in case of kitting with high-variety part attributes. The proposed procedure aims at reducing the kitting travelled distance, shortening the picker paths, best positioning the components in the warehouse to enhance the possibility of creating kits through a single corridor access. The saturation of the warehouse and the minimization of the required storage space are also considered.

Design/methodology/approach

Starting from part categorization, the proposed two-step procedure, of general applicability, designs the component warehouse, sizing the corridors (Step 1) before clustering the kits in terms of part commonality and best-assigning clusters to corridors (Step 2) with the goal of reducing the travelled distance and saturating the available storage space.

Findings

A comparison model considers the traditional versus the proposed warehouse layout highlighting the potential saving in the picker travelled distance. A case study taken from the harvesting machine agricultural sector exemplifies the applicability and the practical implications of this research.

Originality/value

Elements of originality are the warehouse design strategy and the assignment model for parts based on their physical attributes and their occurrence in the assembly kits. Finally, the case study taken from industry, with a high number of components and part categories, adds value to the research making the proposed procedure able to address large-scale industrial problems.

中文翻译：

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具有可变零件物理属性的组装套件：仓库布局设计和分配过程

目的

工具包进料策略创建的工具包将组装每种产品的零件。每个套件都包含具有不同物理属性的元素，这些元素强加了用于存储和处理的异构后勤设施和管理解决方案。本文的目的是介绍和应用分两步的程序来设计零件仓库布局，并在具有多种零件属性的成套工具情况下分配位置。拟议的程序旨在减少套件的行进距离，缩短拣选路径，在仓库中最佳放置组件，从而增加通过单个走廊通道创建套件的可能性。还考虑了仓库的饱和度和所需存储空间的最小化。

设计/方法/方法

从零件分类开始，建议的具有通用性的两步程序设计了零件仓库，确定了走廊的大小（步骤1），然后根据零件的通用性和将零件最佳分配到走廊（步骤2）的方式将套件聚类。目标是缩短行进距离并饱和可用存储空间。

发现

比较模型考虑了传统仓库和建议仓库的布局，突出了拣选机行进距离的潜在节省。从收割机农业部门获得的案例研究证明了这项研究的适用性和实际意义。

创意/价值

独创性的要素是仓库的设计策略和基于零件的物理属性及其在装配套件中的出现情况的零件分配模型。最后，从具有大量组件和零件类别的行业案例研究中，为所提出的程序能够解决大规模工业问题的研究增加了价值。