Six cells (20 20) are to be located in a 2 3 (rectangular) facility, as shown in the figure below. The material flow matrix is given in a separate table. The material handling cost is directly proportional to the distance traveled (from centroid to centroid).

Assume rectilinear distance.

a. Determine a lower bound for the material handling cost.

b. Given an initial cell layout where product 1 is located in cell A, product 2 is located in cell B, etc., calculate the total material handling cost.

c. Use the improvement procedure to determine a better layout and calculate its total material handling cost.

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ACE BDF Flow 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 100 200 150 0 0 2 3 4 20 10 150 0 30 250 150 0 50 10 5. 6