... performances (Figure 1). Hédi Chtourou can be contacted at: hedi.chtourou@ipeis.rnu.tn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Cellular manufacturing Group technology Facilities Simulation The race towards productivity affects all the facets of manufacturing system (MS) design...

...Mohsen; Hassan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assist facility designers decide when to use the graph‐theoretic (GTH) approach to develop a block layout and when to seek another alternative that requires a lesser effort. Difficulties encountered when a GTH block layout is developed from...

...Manocher Djassemi Purpose In spite of having a number of general‐purpose algorithms for solving plant layout problems, facility planners may still face a challenging task to adjust these algorithms to handle special, but not uncommon, layout problems. The purpose of this study is to propose a new...

...Ibrahim Rawabdeh; Khaldoun Tahboub Purpose This paper seeks to apply a heuristic approach to solve the facility layout problem and the description of a new computer‐aided layout design system. Design/methodology/approach The system utilizes a new approach for computing the adjacency scores...