Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement
of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that …

Facility layout problem (FLP) is defined as the placement of facilities in a plant area, with the
aim of determining the most effective arrangement in accordance with some criteria or …

Autonomous vehicles will have a major impact on parking facility designs in the future.
Compared to regular car-parks that have only two rows of vehicles in each island, future car …

Due to increasing demand uncertainty and product variety, manufacturing systems must
continually adapt to maintain productivity. Generally, decision-makers can maintain flexibility …

In the discrete manufacturing workshop, an unreasonable workshop layout has a significant
impact on the production efficiency, which can result in a large distance between operations …

Interior layouts of a building may influence the presence and movement of occupants, which
can lead them to participate in a certain activity, energy-saving behaviour for instance, which …

Global market competition and fluctuating customers' demands require manufacturing
enterprises to focus on cost reduction and efficiency improvement to increase …

The novel multi-workshop facility layout problem presented in this paper involves the
placement of a group of departments into several workshops; it deals with the distribution of …

The layout is an important issue in the design of manufacturing systems. In conventional
systems, the layout rarely changes after the initial design. However, as the market demands …

Motived by cost savings, this paper studies a new periodic maintenance policy for multi-
component systems, for which multiple component reallocations and system overhauls are …