Engineering Optimization, Volume (50), No (3), Year (2017-6) , Pages (499-515)

Title : ( Constructing an optimal facility layout to maximize adjacency as a function of common boundary length )

Authors: F.Ghassemi Tari , Hossein Neghabi ,

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Abstract

An effective facility layout implies that departments with high flow are laid adjacent. However, in the case of a very narrow boundary length between the neighbouring departments, the adjacency would actually be useless. In traditional layout design methods, a score is generally assigned independent of the department’s boundary length. This may result in a layout design with a restricted material flow. This article proposes a new concept of adjacency in which the department pairs are laid adjacent with a wider path. To apply this concept, a shop with unequal rectangular departments is contemplated and a mathematical programming model with the objective of maximizing the sum of the adjacency degrees is proposed. A computational experiment is conducted to demonstrate the efficiency of the layout design. It is demonstrated that the new concept provides a more efficient and a more realistic layout design.

Keywords

, Constrictive facility layout, unequal rectangular department, correlated adjacency and boundary length
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author = {F.Ghassemi Tari and Neghabi, Hossein},
title = {Constructing an optimal facility layout to maximize adjacency as a function of common boundary length},
journal = {Engineering Optimization},
year = {2017},
volume = {50},
number = {3},
month = {June},
issn = {0305-215x},
pages = {499--515},
numpages = {16},
keywords = {Constrictive facility layout; unequal rectangular department; correlated adjacency and boundary length},
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%A F.Ghassemi Tari
%A Neghabi, Hossein
%J Engineering Optimization
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