A small machine shop has five existing machines (M1 through M5) located at coordinate locations P1 (10,

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A small machine shop has five existing machines (M1 through M5) located at coordinate locations P1 (10, 25), P2 (10, 15), P3 (15, 30), P4 (20, 10), and P5 (25, 25), respectively. Two new machines (N1 and N2) are to be located in the shop. It is anticipated that there will be four trips per day between the new machines. The number of trips per day between each machine and each existing machine is

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a. Formulate the objective function assuming that rectilinear distance is used.

b. Formulate the objective function assuming that Euclidean distance is used.

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Facilities Planning

ISBN: 9780470444047

4th Edition

Authors: James A. Tompkins, John A. White, Yavuz A. Bozer, J. M. A. Tanchoco

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