Facility layout problems: A survey

A Drira, H Pierreval, S Hajri-Gabouj - Annual reviews in control, 2007 - Elsevier
Layout problems are found in several types of manufacturing systems. Typically, layout
problems are related to the location of facilities (eg, machines, departments) in a plant. They …

Single row layout models

B Keller, U Buscher - European Journal of Operational Research, 2015 - Elsevier
The single row layout problem (SRLP) consists of finding the most efficient arrangement of a
given number of facilities or machines along one side of the material handling path, a topic …

An exact approach to the one-dimensional facility layout problem

ARS Amaral - Operations research, 2008 - pubsonline.informs.org
The one-dimensional facility layout problem is concerned with arranging n departments of
given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all …

[HTML][HTML] A new lower bound for the single row facility layout problem

ARS Amaral - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2009 - Elsevier
Single row facility layout is the NP-hard problem of arranging n departments of given lengths
on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between department pairs. In …

Tabu search for the single row facility layout problem using exhaustive 2-opt and insertion neighborhoods

R Kothari, D Ghosh - European Journal of Operational Research, 2013 - Elsevier
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with
given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all …

The double row layout problem

J Chung, JMA Tanchoco - International Journal of Production …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This research explores the double row layout problem (DRLP) that deals with how to place
departments or machines on both sides of a central corridor. This type of layout problem is …

Single row facility layout using multi-start simulated annealing

G Palubeckis - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In the single row facility layout problem (SRFLP), we are given a set of n facilities, their
lengths, and a flow cost matrix. The problem asks to arrange the facilities along a straight …

Agent-based simulation study for improving logistic warehouse performance

P Ribino, M Cossentino, C Lodato, S Lopes - Journal of Simulation, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Logistic warehouses are critical nodes in a supply chain and improving their performance is
a crucial issue when trying to avoid unproductive bottlenecks. Warehouse optimization …

A polyhedral approach to the single row facility layout problem

ARS Amaral, AN Letchford - Mathematical programming, 2013 - Springer
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the NP-hard problem of arranging facilities
on a line, while minimizing a weighted sum of the distances between facility pairs. In this …

A scatter search algorithm for the single row facility layout problem

R Kothari, D Ghosh - Journal of Heuristics, 2014 - Springer
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with
given lengths on a line, with the objective of minimizing the weighted sum of the distances …