Optimal Arrangement of Temporary Facilities in Construction Sites

Shawki, K. M.; El-Razek, Mohamed Emam Abd; Maqboly, S. A.

doi:10.21608/jesaun.2010.125553

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“…The FLP can be found in both manufacturing and service industries. FLP exists in placing of electronic components on printed circuit board, assigning the facilities on a factory floor space, locating the service facilities in hospitals (Tongur et al , 2020; Hahn and Krarup, 2001; Khadem et al , 2008; Assem et al , 2012), the arrangement of facilities in civil construction sites (Elbeltagi et al , 2004; Shawki et al , 2010), VLSI Circuits design (Ueda et al , 1985; Ousterhout et al , 1985) and the Web Page layout design (Ahmad et al , 2003; Croeni, 2004). The vast application of this research indicates the richness of this research domain (Liu, 2004).…”

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A survey on discrete space and continuous space facility layout problems

Hunagund¹,

Pillai

Kempaiah

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review, evaluate and classify the academic research that has been published in facility layout problems (FLPs) and to analyse how researches and practices on FLPs are. Design/methodology/approach The review is based on 166 papers published from 1953 to 2021 in international peer-reviewed journals. The literature review on FLPs is presented under broader headings of discrete space and continuous space FLPs. The important formulations of FLPs under static and dynamic environments represented in the discrete and continuous space are presented. The articles reported in the literature on various representations of facilities for the continuous space Unequal Area Facility Layout Problems (UA-FLPs) are summarized. Discussed and commented on adaptive and robust approaches for dynamic environment FLPs. Highlighted the application of meta-heuristic solution methods for FLPs of a larger size. Findings It is found that most of the earlier research adopted the discrete space for the formulation of FLPs. This type of space representation for FLPs mostly assumes an equal area for all facilities. UA-FLPs represented in discrete space yield irregular shape facilities. It is also observed that the recent works consider the UA-FLPs in continuous space. The solution of continuous space UA-FLPs is more accurate and realistic. Some of the recent works on UA-FLPs consider the flexible bay structure (FBS) due to its advantages over the other representations. FBS helps the proper design of aisle structure in the detailed layout plan. Further, the recent articles reported in the literature consider the dynamic environment for both equal and unequal area FLPs to cope with the changing market environment. It is also found that FLPs are Non-deterministic Polynomial-complete problems, and hence, they set the challenges to researchers to develop efficient meta-heuristic methods to solve the bigger size FLPs in a reasonable time. Research limitations/implications Due to the extremely large number of papers on FLPs, a few papers may have inadvertently been missed. The facility layout design research domain is extremely vast which covers other areas such as cellular layouts, pick and drop points and aisle structure design. This research review on FLPs did not consider the papers published on cellular layouts, pick and drop points and aisle structure design. Despite the possibility of not being all-inclusive, the authors firmly believe that most of the papers published on FLPs are covered and the general picture presented on various approaches and parameters of FLPs in this paper are precise and trustworthy. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper reviews and classifies the literature on FLPs for the first time under the broader headings of discrete space and continuous space representations. Many important formulations of FLPs under static and dynamic environments represented in the discrete and continuous space are presented. This paper also provides the observations from the literature review and identifies the prospective future directions.

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