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- Features a factory design project allowing students to connect the organization, concepts, and procedures in the book
- Bolsters section on facilities layout programs and adds a new section describing a conceptual approach to site planning
- Includes online chapter summaries, software supplements, sample project reports, and lecture slides for instructors
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​This updated, expanded, second edition includes new software methodologies and algorithms providing students with a more comprehensive knowledge base in addition to facilitating and making the project component of the textbook more efficient and effective. It further increases emphasis on manufacturing. Retaining its class-tested pedagogy, the book is concerned with the principles of facilities planning and their application to service, business, and product manufacturing operations. Equipping undergraduate students with the fundamentals of facilities planning, design, location and material handling, especially as they apply to industrial manufacturing facilities, the book is ideal for a range of university settings offering courses on facilities planning.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Alberto Garcia-Diaz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Dr. J. MacGregor Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Facilities Planning and Design
Authors: Alberto Garcia-Diaz, J. MacGregor Smith(Deceased)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54259-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54258-9Published: 27 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54261-9Published: 28 April 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54259-6Published: 26 April 2024
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 549
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations, 232 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Complexity, Systems Theory, Control, Facility Management