Based on the total production process of iron and steel plant, and with the general design requirements for the major operating units, the major operating sites’ overall layout relationship of the iron and steel plant is determined. Based on the production workshops, auxiliary plants, power plants, transportation facilities, the functions of departments, subsidiary production and living service...

The layout of chemical plants has to take into consideration boundary conditions and requirements of many different engineering fields. In order to assist the design engineer at an early stage during the extended basic engineering, a system for computer aided plant design has been developed. It contains modules for •extended equipment models including equipment related piping and areas for main...

In other words, facilities design attempts to organize the tangible fixed assets of an activity in such way as to provide maximal support for the achievement of the activity's objectives at the present time and in the future at the lowest possible cost. This activity can take many different forms, e.g. manufacturing (plant layout), health care (hospital layout), transportation (airport layout) ...

[1] To better inform the subsurface scientist on the expected performance of parallel simulators, this work investigates performance of the reactive multiphase flow and multicomponent biogeochemical transport code PFLOTRAN as it is applied to several realistic modeling scenarios run on the Jaguar supercomputer. After a brief introduction to the code's parallel layout and code design, PFLOTRAN's...

One of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. In this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (M/M/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

In layout design nding eeciently good solutions to the hypergraph bipartitioning problem is of great importance. This paper introduces a new algorithm, the dynamic locking algorithm, which has empirically shown a signiicant improvement in the partitioning result compared to known algorithms.

Techniques for drawing graphs have proven successful in producing good layouts of undirected graphs. When nodes must be labeled however, the problem of overlapping nodes arises, particularly in dynamic graph visualization. Providing a formal description of this problem, this paper presents a new approach called the Force-Transfer algorithm that removes node overlaps. Compared to other methods, ...

A lot of Metaheuristics for solving dynamic combinatorial facility layout problems have been developed, but still require much computation time when the number of facilities or planning horizon is large. Dynamic facility layout should meet a dynamic change in both product mix and demand quantity of each product over a planning horizon by adjusting facility layout effectively under a given syste...

With applications ranging from fields as distinct as fuzzy modeling (Xiong 2001), autonomous robot behavior (Luk et al. 2001), learning with backpropagation (Foo et al. 1999), and multicriteria optimization (Viennet et al. 1996), evolutionary methods have become an indispensable tool for systems scientists. Although already studied in the past, an interesting emerging issue is the use of multip...