Article ID: | iaor20032239 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 584 |
End Page Number: | 590 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Urban Timothy L., Kouvelis Panagiotis, Chiang Wen-Chyuan |
Keywords: | production |
Although many authors have noted the importance of minimizing workflow interference in facility layout design, traditional layout research tends to focus on minimizing the distance-based transportation cost. This paper formalizes the concept of workflow interference from a facility layout perspective. A model, formulated as a quartic assignment problem, is developed that explicitly considers the interference of workflow. Optimal and heuristic solution methodologies are developed and evaluated.