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Constructing an optimal facility layout to maximize adjacency as a function of common boundary length
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In this article, a new concept of adjacency in which the department pairs are laid adjacent with a wider path is proposed, and a mathematical programming model with the objective of maximizing the sum of the adjACency degrees is proposed.Abstract:
An effective facility layout implies that departments with high flow are laid adjacent. However, in the case of a very narrow boundary length between the neighbouring departments, the adjacency would actually be useless. In traditional layout design methods, a score is generally assigned independent of the department’s boundary length. This may result in a layout design with a restricted material flow. This article proposes a new concept of adjacency in which the department pairs are laid adjacent with a wider path. To apply this concept, a shop with unequal rectangular departments is contemplated and a mathematical programming model with the objective of maximizing the sum of the adjacency degrees is proposed. A computational experiment is conducted to demonstrate the efficiency of the layout design. It is demonstrated that the new concept provides a more efficient and a more realistic layout design.read more
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A Modelling Framework for Integrating Layout Design and flow Network Design
TL;DR: This chapter introduces a comprehensive modelling framework for integrating layout design and material flow network design toward the direct generation of net layouts including the design of the physical aisle system.
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Optimal facility layout design11This study was supported in part by an Auburn College of Engineering infrastructure award made to Drs. Meller and Vance, and NSF CAREER Grants DMII 9623605 and DMII 9502502.
TL;DR: This paper reformulate Montreuil's model for FLP by redefining his binary variables and tightening the department area constraints and proposes some general classes of valid inequalities based on the acyclic subgraph structure underlying the model.
Facility Layout And Location An Analytical Approach
TL;DR: The facility layout and location an analytical approach is universally compatible with any devices to read, and an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.
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An MINLP Approach for Safe Process Plant Layout
Flavio D. Penteado,Amy R. Ciric +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problem (MINLP) is proposed to identify attractive plant layouts by minimizing overall costs, where the cost of a layout is a function of piping cost, land cost, financial risk, and protection devices cost.
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A multi objective genetic algorithm for the facility layout problem based upon slicing structure encoding
TL;DR: The main advantage of the proposed formulation, with respect to existing referenced approaches, is that the search space is considerably wide and the practicability of the layout designs is preserved, thus improving the quality of the solutions obtained.