Layout Design of a Furniture Production Line Using Formal Methods

Authors

  • E. Shayan Faculty of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
  • Pinto Wilsten J. Faculty of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Abstract:

This paper experiments application of different heuristic approaches to a real facility layout problem at a furniture manufacturing company. All the models are compared using AHP, where a number of parameters of interest are employed. The experiment shows that formal layout modelling approaches can be effectively used real problems faced in industry, leading to significant improvements.

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Journal title

volume 1  issue 1

pages  81- 96

publication date 2007-04-01

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