Abstract
The planning of factory layouts is a complex process which involves stakeholders from diverse parts of the company organization, such as manufacturing engineers, process engineers, logistics managers, operators, ergonomics experts to name a few. These stakeholders must come to a consensus about how to balance conflicting constraints and requirements including area utilization, process efficiency, worker safety and ergonomics, and logistics efficiency. The process typically lacks digital decision support tools for even a subset of the requirements and involves many iterations between the stakeholders.
See full proceeding here.