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http://dx.doi.org/10.7232/JKIIE.2016.42.4.270

Designing Racks for Transporting Flat Glass Products in a Construction Industry  

Kwon, Kyung Jin (Department of Industrial Engineering Pusan National University)
Hong, Soondo (Department of Industrial Engineering Pusan National University)
Kim, Kap Hwan (Department of Industrial Engineering Pusan National University)
Publication Information
Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers / v.42, no.4, 2016 , pp. 270-279 More about this Journal
Abstract
A glass product manufacturing company transports a large number of flat glass products from a manufacturing firm to a building construction site. The products are transported using specially designed racks, which assure fewer glass breakages during the deliveries. This study determines the sizes of the racks which minimize the total logistics cost including costs for rack purchasing, handling, transportation, and inventory costs. The determination of the rack size should consider tradeoff relationships between the amount of glasses piled in a rack and the number of racks loaded on a truck, and affects the required number of racks and the truck operational cost. A truck loading algorithm is proposed to maximize a high truck utilization, and an enumeration method is proposed to determine the optimal combination of rack sizes considering the total logistics cost. The numerical example is solved by using a real data.
Keywords
Rack Design; Glass-Product Manufacturing industry; Truck Loading Algorithm; Total Logistics Cost;
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