Unit load and material-handling consideration in facility layout design

摘要

The effectiveness of a layout design cannot be completely measured if the operat- tioanl characteristics of the manufacturing system are ignored. There is, therefore, a nee dot develop integrated manufacturing system design models. In this paper, the integration of unit load and material-handling considerations in a facility layout design is presented. Hi integration is based on a stochastic model that captures the operational characteristics of the manufacturing system and a non- linear mixed-integer program that incorporates a department formation and facil- ity layout.