Paper Info
Title
Formulating and solving sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem: a key to sustainable operations.
Abstract
Facility layout design, a NP hard problem, is associated with the arrangement of facilities in a manufacturing shop floor, which impacts the performance, and cost of system. Efficient design of facility layout is a key to the sustainable operations in a manufacturing shop floor. An efficient layout design not only optimizes the cost and energy due to proficient handling but also increase flexibility and easy accessibility. Traditionally, it is solved using meta-heuristic techniques. But these algorithmic or procedural methodologies do not generate effective and efficient layout design from sustainable point of view, where design should consider multiple criteria such as demand fluctuations, material handling cost, accessibility, maintenance, waste and more. In this paper, to capture the sustainability in the layout design these parameters are considered, and a new sustainable stochastic dynamic facility layout problem (SDFLP) is formulated and solved. SDFLP is optimized for material handling cost and rearrangement cost using various meta-heuristic techniques. The pool of layouts thus generated are then analyzed by data envelopment analysis to identify efficient layouts. A novel hierarchical methodology of consensus ranking of layouts is proposed which combines the multiple attributes/criteria. Multi attribute decision-making techniques such as technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution, interpretive ranking process and analytic hierarchy process, Borda–Kendall and integer linear programming based rank aggregation techniques are applied. To validate the proposed methodology data sets for facility size (N=12) for time period (T=5) having Gaussian demand are considered.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s10479-016-2351-9
Annals OR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stochastic dynamic facility layout, Simulated annealing, Chaotic simulated annealing, TOPSIS, AHP, DEA, Borda–Kendall, Flow distance, Accessibility, Maintenance, Sustainable operations
Simulated annealing,Mathematical optimization,Page layout,Ranking,Ideal solution,Integer programming,Data envelopment analysis,TOPSIS,Mathematics,Analytic hierarchy process
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
253
1
1572-9338
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.62
20
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Akash Tayal1211.79
Angappa Gunasekaran299764.97
Surya Prakash Singh3566.27
Rameshwar Dubey4889.74
Thanos Papadopoulos519717.90