A heuristic procedure for the integrated facility layout design and flow assignment problem

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-63

  Taghavi, Ali ^a   Murat, Alper ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed layout; Facility layout design; Heuristics; Mathematical programming

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED LAYOUT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN; FLOW ASSIGNMENT; HEURISTIC PROCEDURES; HEURISTICS; INTEGRATED DECISION; INTEGRATED LAYOUT DESIGN; LAYOUT DESIGNS; LOCAL OPTIMA; MIXED INTEGER MODELS; PRODUCT FLOW; PRODUCT PROCESSING; SUB-PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGRATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PLANT LAYOUT;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 79955894405     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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