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Abstract: The objective of this paper to optimize the existing plant layout of a company that manufactures ovens. The existing layout is redesigned to reduce the cost and effort of material handling. The initial layout of the company had 43.20% surplus area and it was incurring a total material handling cost of Rs. 2588.2/month. Facilities planning and design techniques were used to obtain an optimal layout. Use of CORELAP algorithm reduced surplus area of the layout to 8.83%.
Keywords: Facility planning and design, Computerized Relationship Layout Planning (CORELAP).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0528012