The layout of facilities in a logistics scenario involves not only the working responsible for processing materials but also transport lines transporting materials. traditional facility methods do take into account transportation nor calculate material handling cost by Manhattan distance, thus failing to fulfill actual requirements industrial scenarios. In this paper, algorithm framework MOSA-F...

The aim of this research is the development of an innovative approach to support company upgrades, reorganization and new facility establishment. This approach is focused on combining layout engineering with the use of simulation and optimization; this combination is very important because allows to reorganize the whole layout and production processes and flows and to measure the results in the...

Cellular manufacturing system (CMS) is highly important in modern manufacturing methods. Given the ever increasing market competition in terms of time and cost of manufacturing, we need models to decrease the cost and time of manufacturing. In this study, CMS is considered in condition of dynamic demand in each period. The model is developed for facing dynamic demand that increases the cost of ...

This paper presents an integrated design approach for the facility layout problem. It develops a method for the concurrent determination of the block layout, the locations of departmental input and output (I/O) points using the contour distances between the I/O points, and the material flow paths between the I/O points. Results of computational experiments show that the performance of this inte...