Facility location selection

Yang J, Lee H (1997) An AHP decision model for facility location selection. Facilities 15 241-254... 

The viability of producing regenerated water for industrial reuse purposes by means of tertiary treatment of WWTP effluents is illustrated in this section, through examples in N Spain. The demonstration has been performed in Spain. The industrial activities in the selected region showed that the potential industrial demand of regenerated wastewater accounted for 5.2 Hm yr which could be obtained from WWTP facilities located 5 km away of the industrial consumers,... 

Meyer-Lindemann (1951) proposed the first segmentation of industrial facility location research in German literature. Based on the research objective, he defined four segments Location selection analyzes the determinants of location decisions, location impact analyzes the effect a given location decision has on its environment, location development analyzes the historical development of site structures and location policy seeks to create economic policy options to influence location decisions of companies. 

Facilities located at a considerable depth below the ground surface, such as mined cavities, are used in some countries (e.g., Germany) for disposal of hazardous chemical wastes, as well as low-level radioactive waste. However, the selection of a deep disposal system often is based on general land-use policies that prohibit disposal of hazardous wastes on or near the land surface, as well as a desire to protect public health and the environment, and no distinction is made between wastes that pose a lesser or greater hazard in selecting such disposal systems and in developing site-specific waste acceptance criteria. 

As noted above, the structure for definition of cases for analysis by MEPAS starts with the facility. A facility may have one or more environmental issues (ranking units). The environmental issues may be composed of one or more releases into the environment (release units). These releases may then travel and impact people in one or more ways (scenarios). To start the sequence of defining environmental problems, the user positions the selector bar on the FACILITY designation, and presses RETURN. In the next screens that appear, the user either defines a new facility or selects a previously defined facility. For a new facility, a duplicate of the entire database for a previously defined facility may be used. The definition of a facility involves facility location descriptors and relevant users and reviewers names. 

Sample Location Selection, Uniform contamination over a complete aseptic manufacturing facility is remotely improbable. It would require a total breakdown of systems and would be evident in many ways other than environmental monitoring. The selection of locations for environmental monitoring becomes therefore a matter of professional judgement that should take account of two major considerations locations where, if contaminated, product quality would be most seriously affected and locations that due to some vicissitude of design or control are susceptible to microbiological contamination or proliferation. 

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. 

Verier, V., and Dincer, M. (1992), An Integrated Evaluation of Facility Location, Capacity Aquisition and Technology Selection for Designing Global Manufacturing Strategies, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 60, pp. 1-18. 

Key supply chain management decisions include selection of new facility locations, manufacturing quantities, transportation, and information system related decisions. 

Abstract Transportation and facility location decisions are crucial in strategic supply chain design. Optimization models guide location decisions giving the optimal site selection under certain assumptions and constraints. It is an art to decide which model to use and how to modify the results based on the needs of a company. This chapter presents some of the important optimization models in supply chain. Mathematical formulations and solution procedures are also given. The models can be expanded for multi-echelon supply chains and/or include multiple products. 

They reveal that facility location problems mostly include inventory and production decisions as well while routing, transportation mode selection, and procurement integrated location decision problems receive less attention in the literature. Facility location decisions are strategic in supply chain design since a company supply chain will need to adapt to changing market needs migrating to new locations for example. They also state that most of the facility location studies consider minimization of costs as the objective. 

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 ... 

Facility location Where a company has multiple factories (facilities) for production and factories are set for a specific product, the planner must identify which facility will be most suitable for new orders. Sometimes there may be a capacity shortage in a factory in that case the planner must decide which facility will be selected for those orders. 

In the general case, Z can be expressed as the sum of indicator values at each selected facility location. If the number of customers, number of competitors, and... 

A Study on the Location Selection of Industrial Wastes Treatment Facilities A Case of Intermediate Treatment Facilities in Chiba, Japan... 

To continue this study, the location selection of the collecting center for intermediate treatment facilities in 2 places and 3 places are be considered as future work. Moreover, a result of collecting distances, quantity of transportation, and value of carbon dioxide emission will be used for considering the number of the collecting center that should be proper for utilizing as the collecting center of treatment facilities in Chiba. 

Within the Solver Parameters dialog box, select Simplex LP and then click on Solve to obtain the optimal solution, as shown in Figure 5-7. From Figure 5-7, the supply chain team concludes that the lowest-cost network will have facilities located in South America (cell H15 = 1), Asia (cell H17 = 1), and Africa (cell H18 = 1). Further, a high-capacity plant should be planned in each region. The plant in South America meets the North American demand (cell B15), whereas the European demand is met from plants in Asia (cell D17) and Africa (cell D18). 

If (x, y) is the location selected for the facility, the distance between the facility at location (jc, y) and the supply source or market n is given by... 

Do not ignore quality-of-life issues. The quality of life at selected facility locations has a significant impact on performance because it influences the available workforce and its morale. In many instances, a firm may be better off selecting a higher-cost location if it provides a much better quality of life. Failure to do so can have dire consequences. For example, an aerospace supplier decided to relocate an entire division to an area with a lower standard of living in order to reduce costs. Most of the marketing team, however, refused to relocate. As a result, customer relations deteriorated, and the company had a very difficult transition. The effort to save costs hurt the company and effectively curtailed the firm s status as a major player in its market (Harding, 1988). 

This book is the result of a number of years experience in the compiling and editing of data useful to chemists. In it an effort has been made to select material to meet the needs of chemists who cannot command the unlimited time available to the research specialist, or who lack the facilities of a large technical library which so often is not conveniently located at many manufacturing centers. If the information contained herein serves this purpose, the compiler will feel that he has accomplished a worthy task. Even the worker with the facilities of a comprehensive library may find this volume of value as a time-saver because of the many tables of numerical data which have been especially computed for this purpose. 

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