Question: A company produces four products in its production facility. The facility has four departments labeled A-D. The routing information, production quantity, and volume for each product are given in the table below. Assume that the difficulty of movement is proportional to the volume (i.e. the larger the more difficult).
a. Develop the from-to chart
b. Develop three block layouts using the SLP. Assume that total available space is 100*100 and required spaces for the departments are 2,000 (A), 1,000 (B), 3,000 (C), and 4,000 (D).
c. Compute the distance-based objective values for the three layouts.
d. Compute the adjacency-based objective values for the three layouts.