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COMPUTERIZED LAYOUT
PLANNING
CORELAP
ALDEP
CRAFT

QUESTION 3.11
The

Flimsy Furniture Company consists of

10 departments having areas on the REL
chart given below. The initial layout,
Figure 1 and the flow data, and the cost
data, Figure 2 and 3, are given.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Relationship Chart
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SOLUTION
The

problem will be solved using 4

different methods:
SLP

CORELAP
ALDEP
CRAFT

SLP
First

step using the departments

centroids calculate the distance between
each two departments.

SLP

From-to distance chart

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SLP
By

multiplying the distance from-to

departments by the flow you can calculate
the total distance.

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SLP
Activity Relationship
Diagram

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SLP

Solution

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ALDEP
Requirements:
1.Department

areas
2.Activity relationship chart
3.Sweep width
4.Specified level of importance

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ALDEP
Step 1:
Assume sweep width equals 2
Step 2:
Determine the scale. (Number of squares)

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ALDEP

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ALDEP
Step 3:
Choose any department at random to start with
Place the other departments successively
according to closeness rating.
Note that in ALDEP:
A=64, E=16, I=4, O=1, U=0, X=-1024

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ALDEP

The pattern by which the departments

are placed in ALDEP
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ALDEP

Solution

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ALDEP
The solutions score is 536
Repeat with different layouts to get the highest
score

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CORELAP
CORELAP

constructs layouts by locating

rectangular shaped departments
The relationship chart provides the basis
for the order in which different
departments are placed
The input requirements of CORELAP
consists of:
1.
2.

Relationship chart with weights for the

departments
Number and area of departments

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CORELAP
Step

1:
Calculate the Total Closeness Rating
(TCR) for each department using the
activity relationship chart.
A=6, E=5, I=4, O=3, U=2, X=1

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CORELAP

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CORELAP
Step

2:
Choose the department with the highest
TCR

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CORELAP
Step

3:
Choose a suitable scale for the area of the
departments.
CORELAP has a limited space and
represents the departments in the form of
square units. The scale chosen will
determine the area of each square.

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CORELAP

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CORELAP
Step

4:
The first department to be placed is the one
with the highest TCR (placed in the middle)
Then one by one the other departments will
be placed according to the relations
diagram (closeness factor). A is the most
favorable then E
If two departments have the same closeness
preference then choose the one with the
highest TCR

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CORELAP

Solution

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CORELAP
The

TCR for this solution is 144

Assume that the weights of all
departments is equal and is 1. (not
specified in the problem)

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CRAFT
Procedure
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

adopted for using CRAFT:

Determine the department centroids
Calculate rectilinear distance between centroids
Calculate transportation cost for the layout
Consider department exchanges of either equal area
departments or of departments sharing common border
Determine transportation cost of each department
interchange
Select and implement the departmental interchange
that offers the greatest reduction in transportation cost
Repeat the procedure for the new layout until no
interchange is able to reduce the transportation cost

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CRAFT
Solution

by Excel

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THANK YOU

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