Date of Award
Summer 2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (MSIE)
Department
Industrial Engineering
First Advisor
Patrick Brunese
Committee Chair
Patrick Brunese
Committee Member 1
Jose Tanchoco
Committee Member 2
Steven Landry
Abstract
This thesis proposes a new integrated design framework for solving facility layout problems (FLP). The most popular existing framework, Muther's Systematic Layout Planning (SLP) does not address the variety of design goals associated with facility layout problems and is highly manual and so time consuming to perform. Furthermore, the SLP framework does not help the designer select a modeling tool to use in developing design alternatives, either by defining what a requisite model would include, or explicitly suggesting ones from literature. With the advancements made in academic research and computational capabilities since the development of the SLP framework, a new framework was needed to better address varying design goals, and assist designers in the selection of appropriate models. The framework proposed here guides the designer through determination of model requirements to meet their design goals by framing the FLP in terms of "Design Layers". In addition, it proposes candidate models (or methodologies) to generate analytically derived solutions for design goals such as construction of simple block layouts, or determination of input/output points and flow paths in order to create detailed block layouts. The models and methodologies proposed are shown to rapidly reach good candidate solutions to a wide range of design problems.
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Kyle F., "A new integrated design framework for the facility layout problem" (2014). Open Access Theses. 697.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/697