Facility layout design is a strategic issue and has a significant and lasting impact on the efficiency of a manufacturing system. An ideal facility layout provides the optimum relationship among output, floor area and manufacturing process. Traditionally, the facility layout problem is solved using many methods like heuristics, Mathematical programming, Knowledge based approaches etc. This pape...

The dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP) is the problem of finding positions of departments onthe plant floor for multiple periods (material flows between departments change during the planning horizon)such that departments do not overlap, and the sum of the material handling and rearrangement costs isminimized. In this paper a new optimization algorithm inspired from colonizing weeds, Invasi...

The facility layout problem is a global optimization problem that seeks to arrange a given number of rectangular facilities so as to minimize the total cost associated with the (known or projected) interactions between them. This paper is concerned with the single-row facility layout problem (SRFLP), the one-dimensional version of facility layout that is also known as the one-dimensional space ...

With increasing production costs and constraints, demand has increased for manufacturers to minimize maintenance cost and product transport time. We address some aspects of this problem by examining how to choose the optimal layout of stations (machines or buffers) in a production facility based on how the station layout affects the maintenance and product transport times. Specifically, we cons...

Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) are designed to cope with mass customization problem. Assembly (RAS) a variant of this RMS concept in the assembly field. One most crucial issues designing RAS is layout problem human safety considerations. This paper’s main motivation propose methodology determine efficient and safe arrangement facilities workshop. The objective twofold: (i) minimize ...

The dynamic single row facility layout problem (DSRFLP) is defined as the of arranging facilities along a straight line during multi-period planning horizon with objective minimizing sum material handling and rearrangement costs. cost products flow costs center-to-center distances between facilities. In this paper, we focus on metaheuristic algorithms for problem. main contributions paper are t...

facility location-allocation models are used in a widespread variety of applications to determine the number of required facility along with the relevant allocation process. in this paper, a new mathematical model for the capacitated multi-facility location-allocation problem with probabilistic customer's locations and fuzzy customer’s demands under the hurwicz criterion is proposed. ...