A New Space Filling Curve for the Layout Problem which Treat Unequal Departments Shapes and Areas

Takashi Irohara; Wen Hung Wu; Kazuho Yoshimoto

doi:10.1299/kikaic.60.3226

A New Space Filling Curve for the Layout Problem which Treat Unequal Departments Shapes and Areas

Takashi Irohara, Wen Hung Wu, Kazuho Yoshimoto

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Abstract

A Space Filling Curve (SFC) has been proposed, which allows for exchange among departments and offers increased flexibility to the optimization process, as a facility layout technique which can treat any departments of unequal area. However little attention has been paid to the department shape in spite of the fact that SFC determines the department shape. The Hilbert Curve (HC) is used as the SFC, but it gives poor estimation of department shape and is not applicable for use in some rectangular buildings. A new SFC is thus developed, which offers better estimation of department shape than SFC based on HC, and applicability for any rectangular building. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented SFC.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3226-3232
Number of pages	7
Journal	Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Series C
Volume	60
Issue number	577
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1299/kikaic.60.3226
Publication status	Published - 1994
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Layout Planning
Production Engineering
Simulated Annealing
Space Filling Curve

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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