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A new linear adjacency approach for facility layout problem with unequal area departments

Ghassemi Tari, F ; Sharif University of Technology | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsy.2015.09.003
  3. Publisher: Elsevier , 2015
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this study a new version of adjacency, which provides a more flexible layout design, is proposed. In the proposed version, departments which are nonadjacent yet close to each other are considered to be adjacent with a smaller adjacency rating. It is shown that the proposed adjacency is a generalized version of the traditional adjacency. A mathematical programming model is developed for the proposed facility layout problem. To show the flexibility and efficacy of the proposed model, a computational study is conducted. The solution of an illustrative example as well as the solutions of several test problems, reveal flexibility and efficacy of the proposed model
  6. Keywords:
  7. Facility planning of unequal department sizes ; Linear adjacency relation ; Mixed integer mathematical programming ; Mathematical programming ; Plant layout ; Adjacency relations ; Computational studies ; Facility layout problems ; Generalized version of adjacency ; Layout designs ; Mathematical programming models ; Mixed integer ; Unequal department size ; Integer programming
  8. Source: Journal of Manufacturing Systems ; Volume 37, Part 1 , October , 2015 , Pages 93-103 ; 02786125 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278612515000710