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layout: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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layout1 CONSTRUCTFacility layoutKOOPMANS · PLACEMENT

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Operations research

Where to place facilities to cut flow cost

In operations research the layout problem is choosing where to place facilities, machines, or departments so that the total cost of flow between them (materials, people, or interactions) is minimised given the distances among locations. Koopmans and Beckmann's 1957 Assignment problems and the location of economic activities cast this as the quadratic assignment problem that still underpins facility and plant layout. The referent is an optimisation over spatial arrangements scored by inter-facility flow and distance, and it is a different construct from a chip's wiring plan or a gymnast's body shape though all three are called a layout.[1]

Unit
The total flow-times-distance cost of an arrangement of facilities over locations
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Scored by the objective of the quadratic assignment or facility-layout model: summed flow weighted by inter-location distance

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References

  1. Koopmans, T. C., & Beckmann, M. (1957). Assignment problems and the location of economic activities. Econometrica, 25(1), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.2307/1907742

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