“First, the order picking then the stock planning – In the order picking area the most stuff is usually employed. Here the customer service and the logistics quality are decided. The highest costs incur here.” [5] The planning of an order picking system is characterized by the complexity of the system. All attempts to standardize the planning process failed so far. The aim of two research proje...

A footwear business is one of highly competitive markets. Footwear businesses must continuously improve three main key performance measures namely quality, cost and lead time. The case study is one of footwear businesses in Thailand. As customer demands are fragmented, the company needs to offer different products to serve customers’ satisfaction. Customer orders are then small quantities, but ...

A unique controlled field experiment investigates order picking performance (in terms of productivity and quality). We examined three manual picker-to-parts order picking methods (parallel, zone, and dynamic zone picking) under two different incentive systems (competitionbased versus cooperation-based) for pickers with different regulatory foci (prevention-focus versus promotion-focus). The stu...

OBJECTIVE Despite the substantial distress and impairment often associated with skin picking, there currently is only limited research examining various phenomenological aspects of this behavior. The present research contributes to the existing literature by investigating phenomenological variables related to skin picking, such as family involvement, anxiety, depression, and the emotional conse...

The task of gripping has been identified as the rate-limiting step in development tree-fruit harvesting systems. There is, however, no set universally adopted ‘specifications’ with standardized measurement procedures for characterization gripper performance harvest soft tree fruit. A metrics were defined evaluation end effectors used based on (i) laboratory-based trials using termed ‘picking ar...

Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder present with a heterogeneous mix of features beyond the core symptoms of the disorder. These features can be emotional, cognitive or behavioral. Behavioral symptoms often include self-injury, and this may take the form of repetitive skin-picking. The prevalence of skin-picking disorder in Autism is unknown. Skin-picking may lead to significant medical and ...