Paper Info
Title
Contour line construction for a new rectangular facility in an existing layout with rectangular departments
Abstract
In a recent paper, Savas et al. [S. Savas, R. Batta, R. Nagi, Finite-size facility placement in the presence of barriers to rectilinear travel, Operations Research 50 (6) (2002) 1018–1031] consider the optimal placement of a finite-sized facility in the presence of arbitrarily shaped barriers under rectilinear travel. Their model applies to a layout context, since barriers can be thought to be existing departments and the finite-sized facility can be viewed as the new department to be placed. In a layout situation, the existing and new departments are typically rectangular in shape. This is a special case of the Savas et al. paper. However the resultant optimal placement may be infeasible due to practical constraints like aisle locations, electrical connections, etc. Hence there is a need for the development of contour lines, i.e. lines of equal objective function value. With these contour lines constructed, one can place the new facility in the best manner. This paper deals with the problem of constructing contour lines in this context. This contribution can also be viewed as the finite-size extension of the contour line result of Francis [R.L. Francis, Note on the optimum location of new machines in existing plant layouts, Journal of Industrial Engineering 14 (2) (1963) 57–59].
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.ejor.2006.04.029
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Contour line,Facility layout,Facility location
Aisle,Contour line,Bellman equation,Facility location problem,Facility layout,Operations management,Mathematics,Special case
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
180
1
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hari Kelachankuttu160.50
Rajan Batta284989.39
Rakesh Nagi344345.82