The field investigations including the statuses of fire protection layout, fire hazards and fire protection facilities for Nanjing representative historical building (Yuejiang Tower, Tianfei Palace, Jiangnan Examination Institute and Confucius Temple) have been conducted. The problems of the investigated historical buildings are found to be: extensive distribution of combustibles, high fire loa...

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal placement of a single finite-size, rectangular facility in presence of other rectangular facilities. There is a non-negative interaction between the new and existing facilities as well as pairs of existing facilities. All interactions are serviced through a finite number of input/output points located on the boundary of each facility. We assume ...

Factory layout is one of the most important problems in a company, because arrangement facilities affects efficiency and cost manufacturing products. PT. Sermani Steel Makassar City companies engaged manufacture or production zinc-coated steel sheets (Zn) with capacity 3000 tons/year, problem that occurs related departments far apart, causing large moving costs. The CRAFT Algorithm method an im...

A mathematical formulation for the simultaneous design and layout of batch process facilities is proposed. The model determines simultaneously the optimal plant topology (i.e. the choice of the plant equipment and the associated connections), the layout (i.e. the arrangement of processing equipment storage vessels and their interconnecting pipe-work over a two-dimensional space) and the optimal...

In this paper we have proposed a semi-heuristic optimization algorithm for designing optimal plant layouts in process-focused manufacturing/service facilities. Our proposed algorithm marries the well-known CRAFT (Computerized Relative Allocation of Facilities Technique) with the Hungarian assignment algorithm. Being a semi-heuristic search, MASS can be potentially more efficient in terms of CPU...

The choice of good construction site layout is inherently difficult, yet has a significant impact on both monetary and time saving. It is desirable to encapsulate systematically the heuristic expertise and empirical knowledge into the decision making process by applying the latest artificial intelligence technology. This paper describes a prototype knowledge-based system for the construction si...

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance the general practice of layout planning of construction sites for producing the efficient utilization. In this work, a solution to the problem is attempted for unequal and irregular temporary facility using robust search and optimization capabilities of Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm, inspired by the foraging behaviour of real ants. The...

The single-row layout problem (SRLP) is concerned with the arrangement of a given number of rectangular facilities next to each other along a line so as to minimize the total weighted sum of the center-to-center distances between all pairs of facilities. This problem is a special case of the unequalarea facility layout problem, and is also known in the literature as the onedimensional space all...