Dedicated to the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this definitive textbook outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems, explains the significance of facility design and planning problems, and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them. Combining theory with practice, this revised textbook presents state-of-the-art topics in materials handling, warehousing, and logistics along with real-world examples that emphasize the importance of modeling and analysis when determining a solution to complex facility design problems.
Facilities Design, Fifth Edition includes a balanced coverage of modeling as well as applications of layout, materials handling, and warehousing. It presents automated materials handling along with queuing, queuing networks, and basic simulation modeling. The new edition introduces new material that includes topics such as supply chain designing and management, aggregate planning, and transportation, logistic, and distribution.
The new edition will continue to provide access to available software and data files from the author's own website for many of the numerical examples contained in the book. A solutions manual, PowerPoint slides, and figure, slides are available for qualified textbooks adoptions.
The book addresses facilities design and layout problems in manufacturing systems and covers layout, logistics, supply chain, aggregate planning, warehousing, and materials handling. The new edition continues to explain the ins and outs of facility planning and design and is an ideal textbook for students and a reference for professionals.
About the Author: Sunderesh S. Heragu is the Regents Professor and Head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University where he also holds the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Chair. Previously he held the Mary Lee and George F. Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics in the Industrial Engineering department at the University of Louisville, where he was also Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI). He has also held faculty appointments at the assistant, associate, and professor levels at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; State University of New York, Plattsburgh; and held visiting appointments at State University of New York, Buffalo; Technical University of Eindhoven and University of Twente in the Netherlands; and IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
He completed his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering at Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, India (affiliated with the University of Mysore), MBA at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada and Ph.D in Industrial Engineering at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
His current research interests are in multi-modal transportation systems, in the development of real-time decision support systems for emergency preparedness for the healthcare and public health and emergency service sectors, modeling and analysis of drive-through mass vaccination clinic, supply chain management, design of next generation factory layouts, intelligent agent modeling of automated warehouse systems, application of RFID technology to improve intra-plant and inter-plant logistics, and integration of design and planning activities in advanced logistical systems. He was Principal Investigator for a $3.3 million contract managed by the National Institute of Hometown Security for the Department of Homeland Security, $1.72 million project funded by the Defense Logistics Agency, more than $6 million in various projects funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Transportation, and private industry in many of the above areas. He has been PI, co-PI or co-investigator of projects totaling over $20 million. His previous research has focused on the application of deterministic as well as stochastic mathematical optimization models and/or knowledge-based techniques to supply chain management, logistics, facility location, layout, material flow network, order picking in automated warehouses, scheduling, cellular manufacturing, and group technology problems.
He has authored or co-authored over two hundred and fifty articles many of which have appeared in journals, magazines, books, and conference proceedings. He has taught several courses in Operations Research, Service Logistics, Inventory Control, Production and Operations Management, Quality Control and Facilities Design, Planning and Control.
Dr. Heragu has received the Reed-Apple award, a lifetime achievement award from the Material Handling Institute for lifetime accomplishments in the material handling and logistics field. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He has received IIE's David F Baker Distinguished Research award which recognizes outstanding research in the profession and is given for a career of accomplishments that has broadly benefitted practitioners, organizations, or other researchers, Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering for significant and innovative contributions to the industrial engineering profession, the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing Award and IIE Transactions Award for Best Paper published in Feature Applications for a paper co-authored with his student, and the Gold Award of Excellence for leadership in Facilities Planning and Design.
Dr. Heragu has been invited to provide keynote talks at several conferences and serves or has served on the editorial board of IIE Transactions (as Department Editor), the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management (as Area Editor), Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Automation and Logistics, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Mathematical Problems in Engineering and others. Dr. Heragu was Senior Vice-President for Publications and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), is an ABET commissioner for the engineering accreditation commission, and examiner for Engineering Management, Systems, Industrial Engineering, and Manufacturing Systems Engineering programs. Dr. Heragu is a Fellow of IISE, was Director of its Facilities Planning and Design Division, is a senior member of Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Production and Operations Management Society, Society for Manufacturing Engineers, and past member of College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). He is also Chair of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads (CIEADH) and Chair-elect of the IISE Council of Fellows.
