Unit load and material-handling considerations in facility layout design

Unit load and material-handling considerations in facility layout design

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Article ID: iaor2003860
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 40
Issue: 13
Start Page Number: 2955
End Page Number: 2989
Publication Date: Jan 2002
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: layout, quadratic assignment
Abstract:

The effectiveness of a layout design cannot be completely measured if the operational characteristics of the manufacturing system are ignored. There is, therefore, a need to develop integrated manufacturing system design models. In this paper, the integration of unit load and material-handling considerations in a facility layout design is presented. This integration is based on a stochastic model that captures the operational characteristics of the manufacturing system and a non-linear mixed-integer program that incorporates a department formation and facility layout. The non-linear mixed-integer program is solved using a simulated annealing-based algorithm. Analytical results for different manufacturing system scenarios are presented and compared with results obtained using alternative quadratic assignment type formulations. Based on our experiments and the characteristics of the different formulations, key observations are presented and discussed.

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