Facility layout planning is an indispensable part of the manufacturing and service operations. In literature, there are two main different approaches for solution facility problem: While first one aims to minimize both total transportation assignment costs in a quantitative way, second maximize closeness relationship more qualitative way. this study, we use these model multi-objective optimizat...

In this paper we analyze and evaluate the effects of some pre-defined process parameters on the performance of a manufacturing system. These parameters include two different plant layout types, namely functional layout (FL) and cellular manufacturing layout (CL), as well as scheduling rule, machine downtimes, batch sizes, and transporter (interstage transporters) capacities. First we employ sim...