A facility layout problem is concerned with determining the best position of departments, cells, or machines on the plant. An efficient layout contributes to the overall efficiency of operations. It’s been proved that, when system characteristics change, it can cause a significant increase in material handling cost. Consequently, the efficiency of the current layout decreases or is lost and it ...

Flexible manufacturing Systems are automated manufacturing systems which have job shop flexibility and flow shop efficiency. One of the major concerns in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is the minimization of the total flow of material through the system. Facility layout design deals with the arrangement of machines, in order to minimise the total flow of parts in the system. The commonly u...

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Facility layout selection is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem which primarily involves in evaluating multiple candidate layouts, designed according to a set of common criteria for choosing the best one. Designing multiple facility layouts is an easy task, thank to availability of different facility layout design software. However, the decision of selecting the best layout becomes...

With increasing production costs and constraints, demand has increased for manufacturers to minimize maintenance cost and product transport time. We address some aspects of this problem by examining how to choose the optimal layout of stations (machines or buffers) in a production facility based on how the station layout affects the maintenance and product transport times. Specifically, we cons...

The facility layout problem is one of the fundamental production system management problems. It has a significant impact on overall efficiency. This paper introduces new that allows for choosing from multiple variants each facility. need most suitable selection while at same time optimizing other quality indicators represents optimization challenge. We build our previous work where single- and ...

This paper addresses optimization of multi-objective facility layout problem. Facility layout plays a key role for companies, and it is an inseparable part of the manufacturing system design process. Traditionally there are two approaches to the facility layout problem. One is the quantitative approach aiming at minimizing the total material handling cost and another is qualitative approach aim...