H.-A. Crostack
Dortmunder Initiative zur rechnerintegrierten Fertigung (RIF) e.V., Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Str. 20, Dortmund, Germany
Robert Refflinghaus
Dortmunder Initiative zur rechnerintegrierten Fertigung (RIF) e.V., Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Str. 20, Dortmund, Germany
Nadine Schlüter
Dortmunder Initiative zur rechnerintegrierten Fertigung (RIF) e.V., Joseph-von-Fraunhofer Str. 20, Dortmund, Germany
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Published in: 10th QMOD Conference. Quality Management and Organiqatinal Development. Our Dreams of Excellence; 18-20 June; 2007 in Helsingborg; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 26:3, p.
Published: 2008-02-15
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Picking and packaging is the last step between the company and their customers. Therefore failures in picking cause not only costs and delays by returns of delivered goods; but also loss of image. In order to decrease picking-failures and their costs; quality inspections have to be integrated in the routing of picking and packing. This leads to complex interactions between individual picking and inspections processes. Therefore; quality; costs and cycle time are difficult to estimate. The problem can be solved by using simulation; which has become a powerful tool (Crostack; 2004).
But before a useful simulation can be created; picking-processes have to be defined and analysed. In order to detect weaknesses in these processes and afterwards optimize them; the defined picking-processes have to be combined with a suitable inspection strategy. In the following paper these steps are presented and transferred into a simulation.
