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FLQ: A Software for Facility Layout with Queueing

We describe a software application, FLQ, that we have developed to implement the layout design methodology described in Benjaafar (2000). For convenience, details of the methodology are reproduced in Appendix 1. FLQ is a windows-based application that combines traditional layout design methods with queueing analysis. FLQ allows designers to examine the impact of layout decisions on various operational performance measures and provides them with the ability to design layouts with one or more of these operational performance measures as criteria. The software is applicable to facilities where a material-handling system consisting of discrete devices provides transportation for material between departments. The software accounts for multiple products with product-specific routing, product-specific processing times, productspecific production requirements, processing departments with multiple servers, materialhandling system with multiple devices, both empty and full travel by the material handling devices, product and process-specific holding costs, multiple performance measures and design criteria, and user-specified solution methods.