In this study, we have classified different types of problems which are related to facility planning and layout design for different types of manufacturing processes. The main problems which are related to location of facilities which also affects the system performance such as distribution of man, material and machine in a plant or a factory and their optimization technique while using of math...

CCVisu is a lightweight tool for visual graph clustering and general force-directed graph layout. Although the tool was originally developed for computing clustering layouts of software systems, based on dependency and co-change graphs, CCVisu is applicable to many graph layout problems.

Layout planning is the primordial design activity that determines the characteristics and performance of a building throughout its lifecycle. Due to its iterative nature, there is a growing interest in the automation of space layout planning to enhance the search for optimum design solutions. The approaches for automation range from constraint/heuristics-based to the application of numerical op...

Layout planning is the primordial design activity that determines the characteristics and performance of a building throughout its lifecycle. Due to its iterative nature, there is a growing interest in the automation of space layout planning to enhance the search for optimum design solutions. The approaches for automation range from constraint/heuristics-based to the application of numerical op...

this paper presents the application of simulation software Arena and layout optimization software Plan Opt to a dynamic print and packaging company in India, Coimbatore. Some of the problems expressed by the company were large and unnecessary volume of shop floor material handling cost, difficulties and confusion over production planning, long products lead times resulting in losing customers a...

This paper analyzes the performance of a base station layout for a UMTS network in a densely populated city. The study is carried out using snapshot simulations of an actual city (Barcelona, Spain) with specific traffic and propagation profiles. A first layout is proposed in order to guarantee good coverage with a minimum number of base stations. This layout is approached taking into account th...

Network-based space layouts are fine-grained models of architectural spaces. They include rich spatial relationships between layout elements. Such information tends to be limited in existing space representations in building information modeling (BIM) systems. Network-based space layouts could be useful in the space planning and building automation domains. Their main feature is a geometric net...