Facilities Design

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Synopsis

Dedicated to the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this definitive textbook outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems, explains the significance of facility design and planning problems, and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them. Combining theory with practice, this revised textbook presents state-of-the-art topics in materials handling, warehousing, and logistics along with real-world examples that emphasize the importance of modeling and analysis when determining a solution to complex facility design problems.
Facilities Design, Fifth Edition includes a balanced coverage of modeling as well as applications of layout, materials handling, and warehousing. It presents automated materials handling along with queuing, queuing networks, and basic simulation modeling. The new edition introduces new material that includes topics such as supply chain designing and management, aggregate planning, and transportation, logistics, and distribution.
The new edition will continue to provide access to available software and data files from the author’s own website for many of the numerical examples contained in the book. A solutions manual, PowerPoint slides, and figure, slides are available for qualified textbooks adoptions.
The book addresses facilities design and layout problems in manufacturing systems and covers layout, logistics, supply chain, aggregate planning, warehousing, and materials handling. The new edition continues to explain the ins and outs of facility planning and design and is an ideal textbook for students and a reference for professionals.

Book details

Edition:
5
Author:
Sunderesh S. Heragu
ISBN:
9781000606928
Related ISBNs:
9781032258058, 9781003285090, 9781032258065
Publisher:
CRC Press
Pages:
704
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-09-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2022
Copyright by:
Sunderesh S. Heragu 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Technology