The storage application
In a storage warehouse, products come and go all the time. A big difference between a storage company and a production plant is that the storage company does not care about the exact products they have but the amount of space they require for storage. The business is selling storage handling, storage space, and transportation.
For our application, we'll assume that our warehouse has a receipt and a shipping region, an 'in between' staging region and a bulk storage region.
If we simplify the warehouse it might look like this floor plan:
- Receipt: When the products come in, they are first unloaded from the truck into a receipt region. This is often located close to the unloading dock so the truck can quickly move on to its next stop after the products are unloaded and the loading documents are checked.
- From the receiving location, the products should be stored away as quickly as possible since another truck might come and the...
