A LITERATURE REVIEW OF FACILITY PLANNING AND PLANT LAYOUTS

Facility planning is a broad area to work. Many activities are carried out in facility planning. In broader terms, the decisions regarding plant locations, plant design which consists of structural, layout and handling systems design. The brief review of selected literature in the area of facility layout problem, types and methodologies used to solve facility layout problems is presented in the article. In order to conduct further studies in the case of dynamics of facility layout problems and based on available gaps in the literature scope for further research is suggested. There is large scope for improvement for reduction in risks and accidents in industry by considering risk as objective for deciding location as usual objectives like costs and profits etc and also for developing new methodologies for large scale dynamic problems.