Review of Facilities Design (Hardcover)

This book is the Bible for facility design, layout, relayout, analysis, and modeling.An essential book for anyone interested in these topics.

Product Description
FACILITIES DESIGN strikes a successful balance between quantitative modeling of facilities design and practical discussion of real-world facilities design, material handling, and storage and warehousing problems. Distinguishing this book is its excellent treatment of general-purpose solution techniques, including simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and tabu search (in Chapter 7); its up-to-date presentation of group technology and cellular manufacturing systems; and its in-depth coverage of facility location (in Chapters 13 and 14). Many chapters have detailed case studies. For example, Chapters 11 and 12 describe material handling and automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) systems in action, with copious illustrations of modern systems at work. A bound-in disk includes Fortran computer programs for two types of ABSMODELs (in Chapter 5), as well as BLOCPLAN software for demonstrating layout problem-solving concepts and problems.

About the Author
Sunderesh Heragu is the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics at the University of Louisville. Previously he was Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has held tenure-track and visiting appointments at State University of New York, University of Twente, and Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

The first edition of this book was published by PWS Publishing Company. Dr. Heragu has authored or co-authored over one hundred articles many of which have appeared in journals, magazines, books and conference proceedings. Dr. Heragu is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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