Techniques for Facilities Layout: Deciding which Pairs of Activities Should be Adjacent

DOI10.1287/mnsc.29.12.1414zbMath0527.90019OpenAlexW1964840277MaRDI QIDQ3042824

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.29.12.1414

zbMATH Keywords

logistics system design facilities layout layout planning exact and heuristic solution methods adjacent facilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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