This new text strikes an interesting and successful balance between quantitative modeling of facilities design and practical discussion of "real-world" facilities design, material handling, and warehousing problems. Distinguishing this book is its excellent treatment (in Chapter 7) of modern, general-purpose solution techniques, including simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and tabu search; its up-to-date presentation of group technology and cellular manufacturing systems; and its in-depth coverage of facilities location (in Chapters 13 and 14). Many chapters also include detailed case studies. The case studies in Chapter 11 and 12, for example, 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 a Fortran computer program for two types of ABSMODELS (models M3 and M4 in Chapter 5), as well as BLOCPLAN software for demonstrating layout problem-solving concepts and problems.
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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).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Facility design, layout, or analysis? Perfect!,
This review is from: Facilities Design with Disk (Hardcover)
This book is the Bible for facility design, layout, relayout, analysis, and modeling. An essential book for anyone interested in these topics.
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The book is very good for Industrial engineers,
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By using "Facilities Design" method you can improve productivity and reduce your cost.You can add value.
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One of the great book for facilities design,
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We used this book as a text for our class. The textbook is well organized and completed in itself. The reason of 4 stars instead of 5 is too much "ROW LAYOUT", which I think it's the only special case and rarely found in real-world application. Otherwise, this is one of the great books for student and professional.
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Facilities can be broadly defined as buildings where people, material, and machines come together for a stated purpose-typically to make a tangible product or provide a service. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Repeat Exercise, Consider Exercise, Consider Example, Little Rock, Machine Machine, Solution Step, Modern Materials Handling, Monte Carlo, Germany Figure, Courtesy of Alvey Inc, Courtesy of Europe Combined Terminals, Material Handling Engineering, New York, Optimal Approach, Solution First, United American, Value One Cell, Courtesy of Jervis, Courtesy of North American Industries, Decomposition Algorithm Step, Flow Matrix Distance Matrix, Material Handling Institute, San Francisco, Seers Inc New!
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Facilities can be broadly defined as buildings where people, material, and machines come together for a stated purpose-typically to make a tangible product or provide a service. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Repeat Exercise, Consider Exercise, Consider Example, Little Rock, Machine Machine, Solution Step, Modern Materials Handling, Monte Carlo, Germany Figure, Courtesy of Alvey Inc, Courtesy of Europe Combined Terminals, Material Handling Engineering, New York, Optimal Approach, Solution First, United American, Value One Cell, Courtesy of Jervis, Courtesy of North American Industries, Decomposition Algorithm Step, Flow Matrix Distance Matrix, Material Handling Institute, San Francisco, Seers Inc New!
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- Management Science by Laurence Moore in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Operational Research by D. J. White in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Industrial Electronics Handbook (The Electrical Engineering Handbook Series) by J. David Irwin on page 1, and page 27
- Simulated Annealing (Sa and Optimization : Modern Algorithms With Vlsi, Optimal Design, and Missile Defense Applications) by Mark E. Johnson on page 232
- Operations Research by Taha in Back Matter
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- Nonlinear Assignment Problems: Algorithms and Applications (Combinatorial Optimization) by Panos M. Pardalos on page 209
- Multiple Criteria Decision Making in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making ... Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems) by Murat Köksalan on page 337
- Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning (Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series) by Abhijit Gosavi in Back Matter
- Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization (Gerad 25th Anniversary) by Andre Langevin on page 164
- Management and Control of Production and Logistics 2000 (IFAC Proceedings Volumes) by Z. Binder on page
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