AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), with the help of cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), is transforming the way industrial setups are designed. Recent literature has provided insight about large firms gaining benefits from Indus...
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doaj-d5c60400fa704fc78c1522dd275d9ece2021-07-01T00:12:04ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032021-06-011315515510.3390/fi13060155AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0Fareed Ud Din0David Paul1Joe Ryan2Frans Henskens3Mark Wallis4The School of Science and Technology, The Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, The University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, AustraliaThe School of Science and Technology, The Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, The University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2350, AustraliaThe School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, The College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaThe School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, The College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaThe School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, The College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, AustraliaThe Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), with the help of cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), is transforming the way industrial setups are designed. Recent literature has provided insight about large firms gaining benefits from Industry 4.0, but many of these benefits do not translate to SMEs. The agent-oriented smart factory (AOSF) framework provides a solution to help bridge the gap between Industry 4.0 frameworks and SME-oriented setups by providing a general and high-level supply chain (SC) framework and an associated agent-oriented storage and retrieval (AOSR)-based warehouse management strategy. This paper presents the extended heuristics of the AOSR algorithm and details how it improves the performance efficiency in an SME-oriented warehouse. A detailed discussion on the thorough validation via scenario-based experimentation and test cases explain how AOSR yielded 60–148% improved performance metrics in certain key areas of a warehouse.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/6/155agent-oriented smart factory (AOSF)agent-oriented storage and retrieval system (AOSR)cyber-physical systems (CPS)warehouse management system (WMS)small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SME) |
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AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0 |
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AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0 |
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AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0 |
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AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0 |
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AOSR 2.0: A Novel Approach and Thorough Validation of an Agent-Oriented Storage and Retrieval WMS Planner for SMEs, under Industry 4.0 |
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aosr 2.0: a novel approach and thorough validation of an agent-oriented storage and retrieval wms planner for smes, under industry 4.0 |
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), with the help of cyber-physical systems (CPS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), is transforming the way industrial setups are designed. Recent literature has provided insight about large firms gaining benefits from Industry 4.0, but many of these benefits do not translate to SMEs. The agent-oriented smart factory (AOSF) framework provides a solution to help bridge the gap between Industry 4.0 frameworks and SME-oriented setups by providing a general and high-level supply chain (SC) framework and an associated agent-oriented storage and retrieval (AOSR)-based warehouse management strategy. This paper presents the extended heuristics of the AOSR algorithm and details how it improves the performance efficiency in an SME-oriented warehouse. A detailed discussion on the thorough validation via scenario-based experimentation and test cases explain how AOSR yielded 60–148% improved performance metrics in certain key areas of a warehouse. |
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agent-oriented smart factory (AOSF) agent-oriented storage and retrieval system (AOSR) cyber-physical systems (CPS) warehouse management system (WMS) small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SME) |
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