Facility Layout Design for Dangerous Goods Containers in the Warehouse

Abstract

AbstractTechnological innovations and the variety of customers’ requirements have increased competitiveness lately. Facility layout design also became critical for gaining a competitive advantage in terms of service time and operational efficiencies. A facility layout design is a term used to describe the process of arranging sections and distributing them in a facility. Inappropriate facility layout design causes cost and time waste in organizations. As a result,; this research created an implementation for a container cleaning firm with facility layout design issues. This research aims to identify factors influencing facility layout planning through decision-making methodologies, redesign the company's warehouse plan, and select the optimum warehouse placement. In-warehouse layout design methodologies will be employed to achieve an optimal in-warehouse settlement. SWARA (Step-wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis), a method for formulating multi-criteria decisions, was used first and foremost. Then, using BLOCPLAN, one of the heuristic improvement methodologies, a new layout was given based on the information received from the firm. The improvement obtained as a result of the suggested new settlement was detected aafter the investigation, and it was observed that it delivered better results.KeywordsFacility layout designBLOCPLANSWARADecision-makingIn-warehouse design