A new approach to the multiple objective facility layout problem

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for combining the quantitative and qualitative objectives to resolve the facility layout problem. In previous studies, there are various approaches to generate solutions for the facility layout problem. Suboptimal solutions need to be considered for large layout problems since optimal algorithms are computationally infeasible. Therefore, it is important to set criteria to measure the quality of various solutions. In this paper, a new measure of solution quality, the probability of superiority, is offered for the determination of the probability that one layout is better than the others. An example is presented to illustrate our proposed approach.

Location Problems in Healthcare

“…In the last years, a number of papers has been published with respect to multiple objectives Sha 1999, 2005;Sha and Chen 2001;Tenfelde-Podehl 2002;Aiello et al 2006;Chen and Rogers 2009a,b;Bashiri and Dehghan 2010). This is a very important issue for hospital layout planning problems since, for example, travel distances or times of patients, personnel and materials somehow have to be regarded and balanced.…”

Location Science

“…In the last years, a number of papers has been published with respect to multiple objectives Sha 1999, 2005;Sha and Chen 2001;Tenfelde-Podehl 2002;Aiello et al 2006; Chen and Rogers 2009a,b;Bashiri and Dehghan 2010). This is Acknowledgements The second author would like to thank Ines Arnolds and Melanie Reuter for their support in preparing this text.…”

Workshop facility layout design based on the central point of material handling

“…The distance matrix: (5) Set C 0 is the cost of material handling for unite weight of material moving unite distance, and the C T represent the total cost of the material handing in the workshop, the objective function in minimizing the material handing cost will be:…”

“…Most of those approaches are based on the optimization objective to minimize the material handing costs among the transfer separate equipments in the workshop which required complex model and calculation [5] . In this research the equipments are divided to different rectangular production cells, and it is supposed that the equipments have been rationally arranged inside the cell.…”