physical design of the emergency department (ed) has an important effect on its role and function. to date, no guidelines have been introduced to set the standards for the construction of eds in iran. in this study we aim to devise an easy-to-use tool based on the available literature and expert opinion for the quick and effective assessment of eds in regards to their physical design. for this ...

The unequal area facility layout problem has been studied using several distance metrics in the objective function, most commonly rectilinear distance and Euclidean distance between departmental centroids. This paper modifies the distance metric to consider material travel along the perimeter of the departments to and from input/output locations. This perimeter distance metric is used in the ob...

According to [1], the material handling cost comprises about 20-50% of the total operating cost of the facility layout. Typical research on facility layout concentrate on static layout problems where from-to charts are used to evaluate the layout. These layouts are not flexible enough to accommodate any future changes in production. Research on dynamic facility layout also has used the concept ...

The Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, has recently created the "Collaborative Design Environment" (CoDE), a nextgeneration design facility supporting efficient, rapidturnaround conceptual design. The CoDE combines cost-effective, off-the-shelf information technology with advanced design methodologies and tools...

The unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) refers to the reasonable arrangement of a certain number facilities in given area. should satisfy constraints and optimize optimization objectives as far possible. In this paper, method combining improved lowest horizontal line particle swarm algorithm is proposed solve UA-FLP, which achieves multi-objective material handling cost, adjacent valu...

Reducing manufacturing lead times and minimizing work-in-process (WIP) inventories are the cornerstones of popular manufacturing strategies such as Lean, Quick Response, and Just-inTime Manufacturing. In this paper, we present a model that captures the relationship between facility layout and congestion-related measures of performance. We use the model to introduce a formulation of the facility...