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A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Modifying a Block Layout to Facilitate Smooth Material Flows

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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The conceptual block layouts generated by layout software packages very often yield detailed layouts with non-smooth material flow paths that have an excessive number of turns. Such non-smooth flow paths are not acceptable or feasible for actual construction. This paper presents a mixed integer programming model to modify a given block layout into a layout that allows the construction of smooth flow paths, while preserving the relative positions of the departments in the original block layout. Results of the computational experiments show that much smoother flow paths are generated in the modified block layouts than those in the original block layouts without significantly increasing the travel-based quality of final layouts.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Incheon, 177 Dowha-dong, Nam-gu, Incheon, Korea

    Jae-Gon Kim

  2. School of Industrial Systems and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Marc Goetschalckx

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

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  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

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  7. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  8. OptimaNumerics Ltd, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Kim, JG., Goetschalckx, M. (2005). A Mixed Integer Programming Model for Modifying a Block Layout to Facilitate Smooth Material Flows. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3483. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424925_35

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