The layout of a manufacturing process plays a significant role to maintain a profitable production and make competitive a company. Product-oriented layouts aim to minimize the distance travelled by the manufactured units; the process-oriented approach attempts to maximize the saturation of the facilities. However, in many cases a hybrid approach may be necessary to achieve a compromise between the two objectives. This paper aims to present a mathematical model capable to define a hybrid product-process layout by autonomously: (i) defining the process cells and, for each of them, evaluating the number of machines necessary for stability; (ii) identifying the position of the machines within each cell; (iii) determining the best position for the cells in a given shop-floor area; (iv) evaluating a set of KPIs for the obtained layout proposal. The numerical implementation of the model led to obtain a layout proposal within 10 seconds for a process made of 30 distinct operations. The approach is validated through case-studies taken from the automotive industry; the obtained results show that the model is an effective tool to support the activities of designers of manufacturing processes.

An integrated mathematical model for the optimization of hybrid product-process layouts / D'Antonio, Gianluca; Saja, Alex; Ascheri, Andrea; Mascolo, Julien Etienne; Chiabert, Paolo. - In: JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS. - ISSN 0278-6125. - STAMPA. - 46:(2018), pp. 179-192. [10.1016/j.jmsy.2017.12.003]

An integrated mathematical model for the optimization of hybrid product-process layouts

D'Antonio, Gianluca;SAJA, ALEX;Ascheri, Andrea;MASCOLO, Julien Etienne;Chiabert, Paolo
2018

Abstract

The layout of a manufacturing process plays a significant role to maintain a profitable production and make competitive a company. Product-oriented layouts aim to minimize the distance travelled by the manufactured units; the process-oriented approach attempts to maximize the saturation of the facilities. However, in many cases a hybrid approach may be necessary to achieve a compromise between the two objectives. This paper aims to present a mathematical model capable to define a hybrid product-process layout by autonomously: (i) defining the process cells and, for each of them, evaluating the number of machines necessary for stability; (ii) identifying the position of the machines within each cell; (iii) determining the best position for the cells in a given shop-floor area; (iv) evaluating a set of KPIs for the obtained layout proposal. The numerical implementation of the model led to obtain a layout proposal within 10 seconds for a process made of 30 distinct operations. The approach is validated through case-studies taken from the automotive industry; the obtained results show that the model is an effective tool to support the activities of designers of manufacturing processes.
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