This note establishes a class of best possible upper bounds for the Dynamic Plant Layout Problem (DPLP) examined by Rosenblatt (Rosenblatt, M. J. 1986. The dynamics of plant layout. Management Sci. 32 76--86.) in this journal. We use the notation of that paper.

This paper discusses the notion of workflow congestion in the context of material handling equipment interruptions in a manufacturing or warehousing facility. Development of a combination of probabilistic and physics-based models for workflow interruptions permits evaluation of the expected link...

In this paper we propose a new criterion for coverage which is suitable for two kinds of applications: (i) location of fire trucks in a geographical area in which some demands require multiple fire trucks to be within an acceptable distance standard to achieve coverage; and (ii) location of...