Overview of Dynamic Facility Layout Planning as a Sustainability Strategy

Abstract

The facility layout design problem is significantly relevant within the business operations strategies framework and has emerged as an alternate strategy towards supply chain sustainability. However, its wide coverage in the scientific literature has focused mainly on the static planning approach and disregarded the dynamic approach, which is very useful in real-world applications. In this context, the present article offers a literature review of the dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP). First, a taxonomy of the reviewed papers is proposed based on the problem formulation current trends (related to the problem type, planning phase, planning approach, number of facilities, number of floors, number of departments, space consideration, department shape, department dimensions, department area, and materials handling configuration); the mathematical modeling approach (regarding the type of model, type of objective function, type of constraints, nature of market demand, type of data, and distance metric), and the considered solution approach. Then, the extent to which recent research into DFLP has contributed to supply chain sustainability by addressing its three performance dimensions (economic, environmental, social) is described. Finally, some future research guidelines are provided.

A conceptual framework for multi-objective facility layout planning by a bottom-up approach

“…FLP has a significant impact on the efficiency of production systems and their level of productivity (Kheirkhah et al, 2015;Navidi et al, 2012). Several review studies have addressed FLP to a greater or lesser extent (Al-Zubaidi et al, 2021;Anjos and Vieira, 2017;Hosseini-Nasab et al, 2018;Pérez-Gosende et al, 2020;. However, research on many aspects of the problem is still in its early days (Hosseini-Nasab et al, 2018), mainly because decision making in the FLP context is constantly evolving to adapt to technological changes in manufacturing systems, demand volatility in increasingly globalised markets, disruptive events in supply chains, among other factors.…”

“…In the industrial manufacturing systems context, the total material handling cost (MHC) is a key factor to obtain optimal layouts (Chen, 2013;Singh and Ingole, 2019) and also to reduce production wastes (Chiarini and Kumar, 2021). Thus, MHC has been the most employed quantitative objective function to search for optimal or suboptimal FLP solutions (Hosseini-Nasab et al, 2018;Pérez-Gosende et al, 2020. Nevertheless, when solving any plant layout problem, taking quantitative factors as a single objective function may generate solutions that are not necessarily feasible because in some industrial and service contexts, qualitative factors like closeness ratings, flexibility or safety can be more relevant.…”

“…The consideration of whether their dimensions are fixed, flexible or mixed when designing layout, is closely related to areas of departments (Pérez-Gosende et al, 2020). For fixed dimensions, the Int.…”

“…As MHC minimisation is one of the most widely used objective functions in FLP optimisation models (Hosseini-Nasab et al, 2018;Pérez-Gosende et al, 2020, the location of P/D points in each activity centre is a determinant. When modelling FLP, it is common to assume that P/D points are located at the centroid of each department and the distance between these centroids determines the distance travelled by the workflow (approximately 94% of the reviewed papers).…”

Shipyard facility layout optimization through the implementation of a sequential structure of algorithms

“…Authors divide literature review works into two groups: 1) The group that deals with more general context [ 12 , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] , [42] , [43] , [44] , [45] ]; and 2) The group that deals with context of specific dimensions [ 20 , [46] , [47] , [48] ]. We considered the works on FLP published since 2016, disregarding the following [ 43 ]: deals with S urvey on Multi-Floor Facility Layout Problem [ 44 ]; deals with Review of the Layout Design in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems [ 49 ]; deals with Overview of Dynamic Facility Layout Planning; and [ 50 ] deals with Reconfigurable manufacturing system. Table 1 shows literature review mapping.…”