A Clustering-Sequencing Approach for the Facility Layout Problem

Saeideh Salimpour; Sophie Charlotte Viaux; Ahmed Azab; Mohammed Fazle Baki

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-5720-0_15

A Clustering-Sequencing Approach for the Facility Layout Problem

Saeideh Salimpour^*
, Sophie Charlotte Viaux
, Ahmed Azab
, Mohammed Fazle Baki

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper presents a new approach that solves the unequal-area facility layout problem by conceptually clustering facilities into groups and then sequencing them. The objective is to minimize the total material handling cost by placing the facilities, which have more interactions (in terms of the flow of materials) with the rest of the facilities closer to the centroid of the production floor to the extent possible. The developed methodology provides promising results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Uncertainty and Operations Research
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	135-142
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5720-0_15
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Uncertainty and Operations Research
ISSN (Print)	2195-996X
ISSN (Electronic)	2195-9978

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Keywords

Clustering-sequencing approach
Optimization
Unequal-area facility layout problem

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General Decision Sciences

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