“…According to Hernández-Santibáñez et al (2017) and Solarte et al (2018), the facility layout problem (FLP) aims to obtain an optimal design for the allocation and flexible configuration of available machines, equipment, resources, and physical space in order to facilitate the movement and handling of material, as well as to allow plants to have optimized performance and production flow, i.e., with respect to a minimum production cost and total time. Traditionally, the study of such problems regarding distribution, spatial flow, and optimization has been addressed via dynamic programming techniques and combinatorial optimization, as per Jara-Estupiñan et al (2020) and Dey (2020).…”