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A Heuristic Procedure for the Layout of a Large Number of Facilities

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  • Zvi Drezner

    (School of Business Administration and Economics, California State University, Fullerton, California 92634)

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A new approach to the solution of the facilities layout problem on the plane is presented in this paper. A simple procedure that can replace the dispersion phase of DISCON is constructed. The result of the new method is a scatter diagram of the facilities on the plane that can be used by practitioners as guidelines for planning the layout. Since the method is simple and effective, large layout problems can be solved efficiently by it.

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  • Zvi Drezner, 1987. "A Heuristic Procedure for the Layout of a Large Number of Facilities," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 33(7), pages 907-915, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:33:y:1987:i:7:p:907-915
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.33.7.907
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    1. Samarghandi, Hamed & Eshghi, Kourosh, 2010. "An efficient tabu algorithm for the single row facility layout problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 205(1), pages 98-105, August.
    2. Torki, Abdolhamid & Yajima, Yatsutoshi & Enkawa, Takao, 1996. "A low-rank bilinear programming approach for sub-optimal solution of the quadratic assignment problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 94(2), pages 384-391, October.
    3. Ravi Kumar, K. & Hadjinicola, George C. & Lin, Ting-li, 1995. "A heuristic procedure for the single-row facility layout problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 87(1), pages 65-73, November.
    4. Paul D. Dowling & R. F. Love, 1990. "Floor layouts using a multifacility location model," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 37(6), pages 945-952, December.
    5. Jerzy Grobelny & Rafał Michalski, 2020. "Effects of scatter plot initial solutions on regular grid facility layout algorithms in typical production models," Central European Journal of Operations Research, Springer;Slovak Society for Operations Research;Hungarian Operational Research Society;Czech Society for Operations Research;Österr. Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR);Slovenian Society Informatika - Section for Operational Research;Croatian Operational Research Society, vol. 28(2), pages 601-632, June.
    6. Hossein Safizadeh, M. & McKenna, David R., 1996. "Application of multidimensional scaling techniques to facilities layout," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 92(1), pages 54-62, July.
    7. Ignacio Castillo & Thaddeus Sim, 2004. "A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 55(1), pages 73-81, January.
    8. Zvi Drezner, 2010. "On the unboundedness of facility layout problems," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 72(2), pages 205-216, October.
    9. Hassan, Mohsen M. D., 2000. "Toward re-engineering models and algorithms of facility layout," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 28(6), pages 711-723, December.
    10. André R. S. Amaral, 2008. "An Exact Approach to the One-Dimensional Facility Layout Problem," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 56(4), pages 1026-1033, August.
    11. Jerzy Grobelny & Rafal Michalski, 2016. "A concept of a flexible approach to the facilities layout problems in logistics systems," WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) WORMS/16/11, Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

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