Computer-aided facility layout ? A status report

Welgama, Palitha

doi:10.1007/bf01184280

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“…For example, the use of metaheuristics such as genetic algo-Ž rithms, tabu search, and simulated annealing Castell et al, . 1998;Welgama and Gibson, 1995;Barr et al, 1997 may provide good solutions quickly and optimal ones in the limit. GIS᎐optimization integration can also facilitate integrated design, layout, and off-site decision making.…”

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confidence: 96%

Geographic and process information for chemical plant layout problems

Özyurt

Park

1999

AIChE Journal

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Geographic and process information for chemical plant layout problems

Özyurt

Park

1999

AIChE Journal

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“…Further, the multi-criteria models proposed [16][17][18] have non-trivial constraints and are difficult to adapt to real cases, thus having few applications.…”

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Plant Layout Computerised Design: Logistic and Relayout Program (LRP)

Ferrari

Pareschi

Regattieri

et al. 2003

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

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Markets are affected by strong competition in terms of continuous innovation of products and processes, high customer satisfaction and low cost of production. In order to achieve these strategic results it is recommended, or necessary, to rectify lack of organisation. For instance, the increasing costs due to material handling, force factories to check the facility layout and, when necessary, to improve it. The evaluation of a prospective improvement requires a large effort and a wellestablished skill. The study and the optimisation of plant layout is a strategic activity. This paper represents the last step of a research program on the automatic design of plant layout.The aim is to support the design activity of plant layout by means of an integrated approach, taking into account many criteria, both quantitative and qualitative. In particular, this paper presents a global approach, based on material flow and activity relationships. It is carried out using new software, called LRP (layout and re-layout program), introduced by the authors. A real application in a factory, specialising in the production of electronic devices, is presented.

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“…Initially, the problem was addressed by exact methods, which are useful for finding solutions to problems of reduced size since the problem has been classified as NP-Hard [41]. For example, quadratic assignment problem (QAP) [22,26,31], branch and bound [6], integer programming [37], and mixed integer e.Proofing https://eproofing.springer.com/journals_v2/printpage.php?token=q1VzJ... programming [50].…”

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Using eye-tracking into decision makers evaluation in evolutionary interactive UA-FLP algorithms

Salas-Morera

García-Hernández

Antolí

et al. 2020

Neural Comput & Applic

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Unequal area facility layout problem is an important issue in the design of industrial plants, as well as other fields such as hospitals or schools, among others. While participating in an interactive designing process, the human user is required to evaluate a high number of proposed solutions, which produces them fatigue both mental and physical. In this paper, the use of eye-tracking to estimate user's evaluations from gaze behavior is investigated. The results show that, after a process of training and data taking, it is possible to obtain a good enough estimation of the user's evaluations which is independent of the problem and of the users as well. These promising results advice to use eyetracking as a substitute for the mouse during users' evaluations.

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Computer-aided facility layout ? A status report

Cited by 32 publications

References 55 publications

Geographic and process information for chemical plant layout problems

Geographic and process information for chemical plant layout problems

Plant Layout Computerised Design: Logistic and Relayout Program (LRP)

Using eye-tracking into decision makers evaluation in evolutionary interactive UA-FLP algorithms

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