Utilizing Cut Trees as Decision Skeletons for Facility Layout,

Abstract

Facility layout provides a fertile area for the application of optimization models. There is a major cost associated with constructing or reconfiguring a facility. In addition, the number of layout possibilities is so large that human designers frequently have difficulty in generating good layouts. A cut tree is proposed here as the basis for a family of facility layouts. It has some very attractive properties when used as part of an interactive system. The cut tree has proven to be both easy to use and very powerful in aiding designers to generate quality layouts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA182316

Entities

People

  • Benoit Montreuil
  • H. D. Ratliff

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Flow
  • Graph Theory
  • Graphics
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Integer Programming
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Optimization
  • Production
  • Resilience
  • Skeleton
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design