Facility location planning

Facility Location Planning and Determining the Logistical Structure of a Renewable Raw Material Utilization Chain... 

Emergency Response Planning Information (e.g., hazardous materials and facilities locations, characteristics, training) ... 

The floor plans of the ABC Pharmaceutical Industries production facility located in (city and country name) are included under (provide reference to attachment no.). The production areas are color coded as to their environmental classification. The site plan highlights the production areas, rooms, and area classifications. The following drawings are included under (provide reference to attachment no.) ... 

Aikens CH (1985) Facility location models for distribution planning. European Journal of Operational Research 22 263-279... 

Melo MT, Nickel S, Saldanha da Gama F (2005) Dynamic multi-commodity capacitated facility location a mathematical modeling framework for strategic supply chain planning. Computers Operations Research 33 181-208... 

The classical concept of military medical care has been that a chain of surface or ground evacuation is available. Using helicopter evacuation, immediate casualty collection points may be bypassed so that wounded personnel can be taken directly to well-equipped hospital facilities located relatively far to the rear reducing the need for an extensive ground evacuation system. However, reorganization of the medical evacuation system in which the intermediate elements are deleted, based primarily upon the proposed use of helicopter evacuation, may not be possible or desirable. Helicopter evacuation may become severely limited if nuclear weapons are used extensively, and the success of helicopter evacuation is certainly affected by weather conditions and enemy air capabilities. Therefore, a ground based evacuation system must be planned for since it could easily become the primary means of evacuation. 

Once the plant location area and plot plans have been chosen, as explained in Chaps. 5 and 7, the specific site must be selected and developed for installation of structures. Preliminary exploration of the subsurface conditions should be done prior to purchase of a piece of land, since foundation construction may be abnormally high if the bearing load of the underground strata is poor, even though the surface conditions appear satisfactory. Topographical maps of the site to establish plant grades and excavation, together with transportation facility locations, frost-line, and water-table information, are other important site data required. Some detailed aspects of these factors will be presented next. 

South Africa turned to CTL during its apartheid period as a way of surviving trade embargoes. CTL now supplies about 30% of South Africa s domestic demand. The South African Oil Company (SASOL) claims its synthetic fuel is economically competitive at oil prices above 30 /bbl. SASOL is helping China plan and build two 50000 barrels-per-day pilot facilities located near coal mines. China is an obvious place for many more of these facilities to be built. China has significant coal reserves the fuel can be manufactured right near the coal mines and the sulfur content of the fuel is as low as 5 parts per million, compared to diesel products now available with diesel contents of 2000 ppm. 

The book starts with an Introduction and the second chapter deals with Supply Chain Management. This chapter discusses key decisions in supply chain management and considers planning operations for it. The third chapter introduces Scheduling Models in Supply Chain. The last chapter is Optimization in Supply Chain. Optimization problems and models reviewed are classified under transportation and facility location. 

Some issues and company strategies had to be integrated with the facility location, site selection, and distribution center (DC) design planning process ... 

The basic facility location and site selection planning scenarios within the project scope were ... 

Carry out evacuation actions as part of the facility fire plan. Zoning of the fire alarm system remains the key action when defending in-place occupancies. Coordinate fire notification zones and publish in the fire plan. Note that fire alarm zones do not necessarily coincide with smoke compartment boundaries. NFPA 72 allows private mode operation of the fire alarm notification. This allows the staff to know the alarm origin and location. NFPA 72 modifies the requirement for placement of visible notification appliances when operating in the private operating mode. NFPA 101 now allows the use of positive alarm sequence. The sequence includes the following ... 

Any signal received at an attended location must receive acknowledgment in 15 s or activate notification signals in accordance to facility fire plans. 

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