Automated Acquisition of Constraints in Plant Layout Design Problems.

Improved Performance in Process Plant Layout Problems Using Symmetrybreaking Constraints

In this paper, a number of symmetry-breaking (SB) constraints are considered to improve the performance and decrease computational effort needed in the solution of Process Plant Layout (PPL) Problems. The PPL problems are formulated as mixed-integer linear (MILP) models. In order to determine the efficiency of the symmetry-breaking formulations, test runs are carried out on three different prob...

Automated FPGA Design, Verification and Layout

Automated FPGA Design, Verification and Layout Ian Carlos Kuon Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2004 The design and layout of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a timeconsuming process that is currently performed manually. This work investigates two issues faced when automating this task. First, an accurate compari...

Plant Layout Design: A Review Survey

Plant layout design is related to the location of facilities (e.g. machines, departments) in a plant. They are known to greatly impact the system performance. Numerous research works related to facility layout have been published. A few literature reviews exist, but they are not recent or are restricted to certain specific aspects of these layout design. The literature analysis given here is re...

Evolving design genes in space layout planning problems

The paper describes the application of a genetic engineering based extension to genetic algorithms to the layout planning problem. We study the gene evolution which takes place when an algorithm of this type is running and demonstrate that in many cases it e ectively leads to the partial decomposition of the layout problem by grouping some activities together and optimally placing these groups ...

Design of Dynamic Body Shop Layout in Automobile Industry