Design of Facility Layout for Industry 4.0

Background

FLP is one of the most important problems in the literature of production management and industrial engineering, attracting the attention of many researchers in the field of Static and Dynamic Layouts (Hosseini-Nasab, Fereidouni, Fatemi Ghomi, & Fakhrzad, 2018). The FLP is concerned primarily with finding an optimum arrangement of a set of facilities in any layout, subject to certain qualitative or quantitative constraints. The FLPs, like most facility design and planning problems, are computationally non-polynomially difficult (Islier, 1998).

The definition of FLP can depend on:

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  Space presentation. Modern researches try to solve the problem on the level of an actual layout, together with the design of transport paths, and take many constraints into account (shape and size of the available space, minimal distances between neighbouring devices, position of infrastructure, etc.).

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  Cost function definition. Most researches deal with Material Handling Cost (MHC).

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  Static or dynamic material flow.