Description: How should the departments be arranged? The goal is to MINIMIZE distance traveled between departments

Steps:

Determine the flow from each department to the others $($this information will be given$).$

Determine an initial arrangement of the department with respect to one another.

Calculate and add all Flow x transport cost. $($A cost for transport$/$distance will be given$)$

$4.$ Rearrange departments and re$-$calculate until minimized.

Your turn! Arrange four departments in a factory to minimize the material movement $($or handling $)$ costs. Each department is $20$ x $20$ feet and the building is $80$ feet long and $20$ feet wide. The cost for transport is calculate as: adjacent department, $$1,1$st non$-$adjacent department $$2,2$nd non$-$adjacent department $$3.$ Workpieces moved, in $100$s of workpieces per week, between pairs of work areas are: