Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement
of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that …

Agroecology is a promising alternative to industrial agriculture, with the potential to avoid the
negative social and ecological consequences of input-intensive production. Transitioning to …

The multi-facility layout problem involves the physical organization of departments inside
several facilities, to allow flexible and efficient operations. This work studies the facility layout …

Retailers are a major component of almost any supply chain and are the interface between
customers and goods. A ubiquitous and important retailing segment is grocery stores, yet …

The quality of plane layout design of the disc cutters for the full-face rock tunnel boring
machine (TBM) directly affects the balance of force distribution on the cutter head during the …

Facility layout design involves a systematic physical arrangement of different departments,
work stations, machines, equipments, storage areas and common areas in a manufacturing …

In response to increasing inflexible customer demands and to improve the competitive
advantage, industrial organizations have to adopt strategies to achieve cost reduction …

The task assignment problem (TAP) is one of the standard combinatorial optimization
problems (COPs) in the field of discrete optimization. TAP is known to be an NP-complete …

Thus far in the available literature, capability-based facility layout design approaches were
developed by only considering equal machine areas, where they are assigned to the pre …

This paper presents a new variant of the double row layout problem (DRLP) that features
types of capacitated machines. This variant dramatically improves the fidelity with which the …