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 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...

In this research, we have developed a new efficient heuristic algorithm for the dynamic facility layout problem with budget constraint (DFLPB). This heuristic algorithm combines two mathematical programming methods such as discrete event simulation and linear integer programming (IP) to obtain a near optimum solution. In the proposed algorithm, the non-linear model of the DFLP has been changed ...