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- Title
AN APPLICATION OF A FACILITIES LOCATION MODEL IN THE PRESTRESSED CONCRETE INDUSTRY.
- Authors
Love, Robert F.; Yerex, Lowell
- Abstract
The article discusses the method adopted by Coastal Construction Co. of Portsmouth, Virginia, to introduce a new product and to determine the location of two new production facilities. Three existing facilities were relevant to the determination of the location of two new facilities. These facilities consisted of a concrete batching plant, a steel manufacturing area and a shipping gate checking and weighing area. The concrete batching plant supplies the premixed concrete used in pole construction. This plant also supplies the concrete for all other concrete items produced in the plant. In the steel manufacturing area, a certain amount of mild steel hardware is used in pole production; about half of the steel is embedded in the concrete and forms part of the finished pole. The optimal locations of the new facilities would not be different with a different sales volume, since all material flows between facilities are proportional to the flow of finished poles from the facility. For example, with a sales volume of 80 poles per day, all coefficients in the objective function of the linear program would be doubled.
- Subjects
PORTSMOUTH (Va.); VIRGINIA; COASTAL Construction Co. Inc.; PRODUCTION planning; NEW product development; INDUSTRIAL management; CONSTRUCTION industry
- Publication
Interfaces, 1976, Vol 6, Issue 4, p45
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.6.4.45