Böcker av Alberto Garcia-Diaz

​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.

Book Special Features · This book presents a clear exposition of the fundamental theory, procedures, and applications of network analysis with emphasis on flow optimization. · This book was written for two key audiences. It can serve as a textbook on theory and applications of network models for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students, especially Master's students and introductory level Ph.D. students in industrial engineering, business and operations research academic programs. The textbook is also intended to be used as a valuable resource for practitioners in these areas.· The book offers a wide, well-balanced and comprehensive topical coverage that includes both the theoretical basis of network optimization and network analysis tools that are outside the boundaries of network flow optimization, a short introduction of Stochastic Network Flow using the Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)and several useful applications, network reliability, and project management methodologies.· The license-free use of a Network Optimization Program (NOP) to solve all problems included in this book.

For undergraduate courses in facilities planning and material handling. Based on ten years' teaching experience, this text takes a practical, teachable approach to facilities planning and design. A class design project centered on a factory incorporates the theoretical aspects of facilities planning and design. Motivating and illustrating mathematical models wherever possible, the text explores facilities planning, capstone design, and even simulation modelling.