Facilities Design, Third Edition

✍ Scribed by Heragu, Sunderesh S

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 626
• Series: 500 Tips
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Delineating the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this book strikes a healthy balance between theory and practice. It provides an understanding of the practical aspects of implementing preliminary designs development through analytical models. The third edition of a bestseller, it features updated multimedia tools, new software, and additional exercise problems. The text presents analytical performance evaluation models and tests them using software available for download on the web. An appendix offers queuing and queuing models along with simulation examples. Each chapter includes a set of review questions for self-study

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author
Chapter 1. Introduction to Facility Design
Chapter 2. Product and Equipment Analysis
Chapter 3. Process and Material Flow Analysis
Chapter 4. Traditional Approaches to Facility Layout
Chapter 5. Basic Algorithms and Software for the Layout Problem
Chapter 6. Group Technology and Facilities Layout
Chapter 7. Models for the Layout Problem
Chapter 8. Advanced Algorithms for the Layout Problem
Chapter 9. Material Handling
Chapter 10. Storage and Warehousing
Chapter 11. Basic Models for the Location Problem. Chapter 12. Advanced Location and Routing ModelsAppendix: Introduction to Queuing, Queuing Network, and Simulation Modeling
References
Index
Back cover.