Facility layout problem is associated with the arrangement of facilities in a plant. It is a critical
issue in the early stages of designing a manufacturing system because it affects the total …

In dynamic environments, it is often necessary to analyze the layout and redesign it in
accordance with the changes in demand. This paper presents a novel dynamic facility layout …

Here, a review of the research papers on the facility layout problem is being presented.
Various facility layout papers on meta-heuristic and the other approaches are summarised …

In today's manufacturing environment, the facility layout needs to be adaptable to changes.
This situation requires the solution of the dynamic layout problem. But in previous studies of …

Facility layout problem has been extensively studied in the literature because the total
material handling cost can be a significant portion in the operational costs for a company …

Determining the locations of departments or machines in a shop floor is classified as a
facility layout problem. This article studies unequal-area stochastic facility layout problems …

Layout planning for hospitals is a long-term decision. Nevertheless, medical and
organizational factors change over time. For example, demand for different-sized bed rooms …

A state-of-the-art review, spanning the last two decades, on application of metaheuristic
methods in facility layout problems (FLPs) to gauge the current and emerging trends …

This paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm in which simulated annealing algorithm starts
with a population of good initial solutions constructed by combining ant colony, clonal …

Facility design approaches often focus on a single production demand scenario and
develop a layout that minimises the Material Handling (MH) costs for that scenario. In a …