A new mixed integer programming formulation for facility layout design using flexible bays

Authors:
Abdullah Konak;Sadan Kulturel-Konak;Bryan A. Norman;Alice E. Smith
Affiliations:
Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State Berks, Tulpehocken Road P.O. Box 7009, Reading, PA 19610-6009, USA;Management Information Systems, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA 19610, USA;Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA;Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Venue:
Operations Research Letters
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a mixed-integer programming formulation to find optimal solutions for the block layout problem with unequal departmental areas arranged in flexible bays. The nonlinear department area constraints are modeled in a continuous plane without using any surrogate constraints. The formulation is extensively tested on problems from the literature.