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An Application Of An Unequal-Area Facilities Layout Problem With Fixed-Shape Facilities, Alan Mckendall, Artak Hakobyan
An Application Of An Unequal-Area Facilities Layout Problem With Fixed-Shape Facilities, Alan Mckendall, Artak Hakobyan
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The unequal-area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) is the problem of locating rectangular facilities on a rectangular floor space such that facilities do not overlap while optimizing some objective. The objective considered in this paper is minimizing the total distance materials travel between facilities. The UA-FLP considered in this paper considers facilities with fixed dimension and was motivated by the investigation of layout options for a production area at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) plant in Buffalo, WV, USA. This paper presents a mathematical model and a genetic algorithm for locating facilities on a continuous plant floor. More specifically, …
An Application Of An Unequal-Area Facilities Layout Problem With Fixed-Shape Facilities, Alan Mckendall, Artak Hakobyan
An Application Of An Unequal-Area Facilities Layout Problem With Fixed-Shape Facilities, Alan Mckendall, Artak Hakobyan
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
The unequal-area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) is the problem of locating rectangular facilities on a rectangular floor space such that facilities do not overlap while optimizing some objective. The objective considered in this paper is minimizing the total distance materials travel between facilities. The UA-FLP considered in this paper considers facilities with fixed dimension and was motivated by the investigation of layout options for a production area at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia (TMMWV) plant in Buffalo, WV, USA. This paper presents a mathematical model and a genetic algorithm for locating facilities on a continuous plant floor. More specifically, …