...Taho Yang; Chao‐Ton Su; Yuan‐Ru Hsu This paper proposes to use Muther’s systematic layout planning procedure as the infrastructure to solve a fab layout design problem. A multiple objective decision making tool, analytic hierarchy process, is then proposed to evaluate the design alternatives...

...Steven Dhondt; Jos Benders The Dutch version of sociotechnical systems design called “modern sociotechnology” stresses that the quality of working life is dependent on the choice for a certain “production structure”, i.e. the physical layout of operations. Two propositions about this relationship...

...Taho Yang; Brett A. Peters A bay configuration arranged along a central spine and served by an automated monorail material‐handling system are common designs for the layout and material‐handling system in new semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities. Investigates the facility design problem...

... successfully. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Just‐in‐time Layout Materials handling Simulation The success of Japanese manufacturing companies in the 1980s has generated great interest in their manufacturing techniques among other industrialized countries. Just‐in‐time (JIT) manufacturing has been...