Robust Facility Layout

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Neghabi, Hossein | 2010

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 41775 (01)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Industrial Engineering
Advisor(s): Eshghi, Koorosh
Abstract:
Facility layout problem (FLP) is one of the classical problems that concern with planning for the placement of facilities. Two dimensional layout problem is one of the special layout problems that involves with the arrangement of facilities in non predefined shape. For solving the FLP, a number of information such as dimensions of facilities, relations between facilities, governing constrains etc., are required. But in the most research works, it has been assumed that the required information is precisely known. In this thesis, we challenge this assumption considering the size (length and width) of facilities as bounded variable parameters. In order to make the problem solvable in the sense of robust optimization, two tuning parameters are introduced which specify the overlapping constraints. Furthermore, the lower and upper bounds of the objective function is obtained. Some test problems are given to assess the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Numerical results indicate the narrow bandwidth of possible solutions. This property would guarantee the assurance of the decision maker
Keywords:
Robust Optimization ; Mixed Integer Programming ; Facility Layout ; Lower and Upper Bound ; Decision Maker

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