Facility Logistics Management:
Stochastic Models of Warehousing Systems
March 31, 2021

Meeting:	Wednesday March 31 from 10.00 to 16.00 Teams meeting
Instructor:	Ivo Adan
	office:	Atlas 4.320
	telephone:	247 2932
	e-mail:	iadan@tue.nl
Background material:
	Preface Basic concepts from probability theory Queueing models and some fundamental relations Markov chains and Markov processes The M/M/1 system The M/M/1 system with subcontracting A system with production-to-stock The M/G/1 system The M/G/1 priority system The M/G/1 system with setup times Queueing systems with general interarrival times Multi-machine systems Machine-repairmen problem Production lines Open job-shop systems Closed production networks
Take home assignment:
	Single-segment zone-picking system
Course slides:
	Introduction Exponential single-server model Single-station models Flow lines Open job-shop models Closed network models
References:
	Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman: Factory Physics, McGraw-Hill, 2008. Sheldon M. Ross: Probability Models, 8th edition, Academic Press, 2003. Henk Tijms: Understanding Probability, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2012.