Solving the failure-to-fit problem for plant layout: By changing department shapes and sizes

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(96)90064-8zbMath0908.90150OpenAlexW2032058919MaRDI QIDQ1266662

John Y. Cheung, Chir-Ho Chang, Simin Pulat, Jin-Ling Lin, Bobbie L. Foote

Publication date: 7 October 1998

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(96)90064-8

zbMATH Keywords

simulated annealingheuristic searchplant layoutfailure-to-fit problemlocal cost of material flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

Cites Work

• The facility layout problem
• Experimental analysis of simulated annealing based algorithms for the layout problem
• Assignment Problems and the Location of Economic Activities
• Tabu Search Applied to the Quadratic Assignment Problem
• A new simulated annealing algorithm for the facility layout problem
• An Improvement-Type Layout Algorithm for Single and Multiple-Floor Facilities

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