| dc.description.abstract | Smart Warehousing is a revolutionary idea to the logistics and warehousing industry. The key of
Smart Warehouse is the level of automation on its equipment. Automation provides cost-effective
solutions for meeting market needs, such as space savings and productivity improvement. The hottest
issue about automation in the warehouse industry comes from Amazon as the biggest e-commerce
in the world. They install a mobile robotic fulfillment system named Kiva system to operate their
warehouse operation. Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System is used to improve the efficiency of
warehouse management, speed, accuracy and flexibility of the top technology of autonomous mobile
robot. Kiva system has a lot of advantages to optimize activitiesin the warehouse by replacing people
with robot to handle goods including search, pick, deliver to certain location, and etc. Despite its
advantages, there are many challenges in Kiva system application. This study aims to investigate
some challenges in Kiva system through intensive literature study and simulation. The result shows
some problemsin Kiva system are queuing battery charging, order assignment decision, and avoiding
collision. | en_US |
