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Constructing an optimal facility layout to maximize adjacency as a function of common boundary length

Ghassemi Tari, F ; Sharif University of Technology | 2018

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1080/0305215X.2017.1325484
  3. Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2018
  4. Abstract:
  5. 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. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
  6. Keywords:
  7. Constrictive facility layout ; Mathematical programming ; Computational experiment ; Correlated adjacency and boundary length ; Facility layout ; High flow ; Layout designs ; Material Flow ; Mathematical programming models ; Unequal rectangular department ; Plant layout
  8. Source: Engineering Optimization ; Volume 50, Issue 3 , 2018 , Pages 499-515 ; 0305215X (ISSN)
  9. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305215X.2017.1325484?journalCode=geno20