TY - JOUR
T1 - Facility layout planning. An extended literature review
AU - Pérez-Gosende, Pablo
AU - Mula, Josefa
AU - Díaz-Madroñero, Manuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that they are considered one of the most important design decisions as part of business operation strategies, and their proven repercussion on production systems’ operation costs, efficiency and productivity, mean that this theme has been widely addressed in science. In this context, the present article offers a scientific literature review about FLP from the operations management perspective. The 232 reviewed articles were classified as a large taxonomy based on type of problem, approach and planning stage and characteristics of production facilities by configuring the material handling system and methods to generate and assess layout alternatives. We stress that the generation of layout alternatives was done mainly using mathematical optimisation models, specifically discrete quadratic programming models for similar sized departments, or continuous linear and non-linear mixed integer programming models for different sized departments. Other approaches followed to generate layout alternatives were expert’s knowledge and specialised software packages. Generally speaking, the most frequent solution algorithms were metaheuristics.
AB - Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that they are considered one of the most important design decisions as part of business operation strategies, and their proven repercussion on production systems’ operation costs, efficiency and productivity, mean that this theme has been widely addressed in science. In this context, the present article offers a scientific literature review about FLP from the operations management perspective. The 232 reviewed articles were classified as a large taxonomy based on type of problem, approach and planning stage and characteristics of production facilities by configuring the material handling system and methods to generate and assess layout alternatives. We stress that the generation of layout alternatives was done mainly using mathematical optimisation models, specifically discrete quadratic programming models for similar sized departments, or continuous linear and non-linear mixed integer programming models for different sized departments. Other approaches followed to generate layout alternatives were expert’s knowledge and specialised software packages. Generally speaking, the most frequent solution algorithms were metaheuristics.
KW - Facility design
KW - facility layout
KW - facility planning
KW - materials handling
KW - modelling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102825093&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00207543.2021.1897176
DO - 10.1080/00207543.2021.1897176
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85102825093
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 59
SP - 3777
EP - 3816
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 12
ER -