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A New Graph-Theoretic Heuristic for Facility Layout

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  • Janny Leung

    (Decision Sciences Group/MIS Department, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721)

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The facility layout problem is important in the modern manufacturing environment because increased machine flexibility and product diversification create additional complexities in scheduling and material handling. An important first step in facility layout is the determination of which machines should be adjacent. This problem can be modelled as that of finding a maximum weight planar subgraph of a graph, given a measure of the desirability that two machines be adjacent based on the anticipated flows and technological constraints. We present a new heuristic that is a generalization of previous work of Foulds and Robinson. Preliminary computational results are presented which suggest that this heuristic performs well.

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  • Janny Leung, 1992. "A New Graph-Theoretic Heuristic for Facility Layout," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 38(4), pages 594-605, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:38:y:1992:i:4:p:594-605
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.38.4.594
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    1. Kim, J. -Y. & Kim, Y. -D., 1995. "Graph theoretic heuristics for unequal-sized facility layout problems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 23(4), pages 391-401, August.

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