TY - JOUR
T1 - A New Space Filling Curve for the Layout Problem which Treat Unequal Departments Shapes and Areas
AU - Irohara, Takashi
AU - Wu, Wen Hung
AU - Yoshimoto, Kazuho
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Layout Planning
KW - Production Engineering
KW - Simulated Annealing
KW - Space Filling Curve
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U2 - 10.1299/kikaic.60.3226
DO - 10.1299/kikaic.60.3226
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028513740
VL - 60
SP - 3226
EP - 3232
JO - Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C
JF - Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C
SN - 0387-5024
IS - 577
ER -