Facility layout problem is associated with the arrangement of facilities in a plant. It is a critical
issue in the early stages of designing a manufacturing system because it affects the total …

In today's economy, manufacturing plants must be able to operate efficiently and respond
quickly to changes in product mix and demand. Therefore, this paper considers the problem …

Today's consumer market demands that manufacturers must be competitive. This requires
the efficient operation of manufacturing plants and their ability to quickly respond to changes …

Due to inherent complexity of the dynamic facility layout problem, it has always been a
challenging issue to develop a solution algorithm for this problem. For more than one …

It has been nearly two decades since the last major review of the literature in dynamic facility
layout. In these intervening years, many advances have been made in modelling as well as …

This paper presents an algorithm combining dynamic programming and genetic search for
solving a dynamic facility layout problem. While the quadratic assignment formulation of this …

Production uncertainty is one of the most challenging aspects in manufacturing
environments in the 21st century. The next generation of intelligent manufacturing is …

In this paper, a design for robust facility layout is proposed under the dynamic demand
environment. The general strategy for a multi period layout planning problem is adaptive …

In dynamic environments, it is often necessary to analyze the layout and redesign it in
accordance with the changes in demand. This paper presents a novel dynamic facility layout …

Purpose This study examines the outsourcing criteria prevalent in the Hotel industry of
Pakistan. In doing so, the study investigates the role of trust in the association between …