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International Journal of Production Research Volume 32, 1994 - Issue 2
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Spine layout design

A. LANGEVIN Department of Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, CP 6079, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3A7, CanadaView further author information
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B. MONTREUIL Department of Operation and Decision Systems, Groupe de Recherche en Gestion de la Logistique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
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D. RIOPEL Department of Industrial Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, CP 6079, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3A7, Canada
Pages 429-442 | Received 01 Mar 1993, Published online: 07 May 2007
 
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Abstract

We present a method for designing spine layouts. A spine layout is a layout in which a main aisle is used for the movements between the work cells located on both side and for the temporary storage of work in process. Our objective is to find a layout that minimizes both the handling costs and the investment costs. Also, a rectangular layout shape is searched for. With the proposed method, a design skeleton is first constructed with a heuristic. This design skeleton is then optimally transposed into a net layout via an integer linear program. Numerical results for layouts of 12 and 22 cells are presented.

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