Abstract
This research proposes a method for comparing computer generated electronics assembly facility layouts. CRAFT, ALDEP, and CORELAP outputs are disccused in terms of quantitative measures such as flow inefficiency, distance between functional areas and growth capacity. Flow linearity, access to functional areas, and maintenance of critical relationships between functional areas are examined for qualitative layout comparison. Although 3 software packages' output were compared, the approach could easily be applied to comparing the outputs dervied from one layout software package. Results taken from the implementation of the comparison method at a Fortune 500 electronics manufacturing firm are presented. An algorithmic method is presented which has not been developed into software and in which the authors have no commercial interest. Use of the method, MASL, Multifactor Approach for Selecting Layouts, enhanced the utility and performance measurement of the computer generated layouts for the electronics assembly area of the plant.
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