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 | | Facilities Design by Sunderesh S. Heragu ISBN-10: 9780534951832 ISBN-10: 0-534-95183-X ISBN-13: 9780534951832 ISBN-13: 978-0-534-95183-2 Hardcover 1997-03-05 PWS Pub. Co. Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description FACILITIES DESIGN strikes a successful balance between quantitative modeling of facilities design and practical discussion of real-world facilities design, material handling, and storage and warehousing problems. Distinguishing this book is its excellent treatment of general-purpose solution techniques, including simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, and tabu search (in Chapter 7); its up-to-date presentation of group technology and cellular manufacturing systems; and its in-depth coverage of facility location (in Chapters 13 and 14). Many chapters have detailed case studies. For example, Chapters 11 and 12 describe material handling and automated storage and retrieval (AS/RS) systems in action, with copious illustrations of modern systems at work. A bound-in disk includes Fortran computer programs for two types of ABSMODELs (in Chapter 5), as well as BLOCPLAN software for demonstrating layout problem-solving concepts and problems. | ||
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Good 6000 foot view, but missing details There is much useful info in this text that will help any Manufacturing Engineer avoid pitfalls. However, despite detailed models and optimization problems the author chooses not to broach the most critical question: How much will this project cost? It is impossible to make a business case for any project without considering life cycle cost. While studying Chemical Engineering, we needed to present detailed economic analysis while defending the courses of action taken for our senior design project. Our text provided charts to estimate capital cost, operating cost and deflation schedule for each piece of major equipment. Correcting the deficiency in Heragu's text would be simple. While process specific equipment / machinery may be outside the scope of this book, common items could be included with a minimal degree of effort. Instead of merely showing pictures of different cranes, the author should quantify investment and operating costs of key P&E items, generate swag relations and include these in the text (along with a disclaimer). Without this, the text cannot cross over from theoretical to practical. | ||
The book is very good for Industrial engineers By using "Facilities Design" method you can improve productivity and reduce your cost.You can add value. | ||
Facility design, layout, or analysis? Perfect! This book is the Bible for facility design, layout, relayout, analysis, and modeling. An essential book for anyone interested in these topics. | ||
A thorough overview on modeling and facilties design This is a great textbook in modeling. Even though, some chapters need a high level of maths to be understood and advanced models are really "hard stuff". | ||
One of the great book for facilities design We used this book as a text for our class. The textbook is well organized and completed in itself. The reason of 4 stars instead of 5 is too much "ROW LAYOUT", which I think it's the only special case and rarely found in real-world application. Otherwise, this is one of the great books for student and professional. | ||