Part 1 of 5 - Part Deux: Somebody Actually Did This?! Surprising Designs for Unit-Load Warehouses

Part 1 of 5
This is a video recording from an Atlanta WERCouncil event by Dr. Gue in following up to his 2006 introducing the "fishbone" and "flying-V" aisle designs.

He reports on two implementations of non-traditional aisle designs in a unit-load warehouse. Both are based on recent research that proposes "fishbone" and "flying-V" aisle designs, which purport to reduce travel distances by as much as 20 percent. After a brief bit of background, he will describe these new operations and attempt to draw some lessons from their implementation. And there are pictures!

Kevin Gue is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Auburn University. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Logistics in the Graduate School of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He graduated with Distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985 with a Bachelor's Degree (Mathematics), then served as an officer in the submarine community until 1990. He also attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering in 1995. Dr. Gue has been on the faculty at Auburn since 2004.

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