TY - JOUR
AB - IIE Transactions (1998) 30, 409±410 Software review Cimtechnologies Corporation, ISU Research Park, 2501 North Loop Drive, Ames, IA 50010, USA The importance of ecient factory layouts has long been cally draw industrial equipment such as cranes, racks, recognized by the practising engineer. It is well known and conveyors to conform to user speci®cations and has that a good factory layout can o€er many bene®ts to a an animation feature that allows tracing of mobile ob- company including reduced work-in-process inventory, jects. The report generators are useful in space planning reduced waiting time, higher quality, and reduced mate- and asset management. The main drawback with the rial handling costs among other bene®ts [1]. However, FactoryCAD program is that the data entry interface at until recently, there were really no layout optimization some levels only accepts input from the keyboard and not packages that were user friendly. Until the early nineties, the mouse. Also, unlike many CAD programs, it is not there were mainly two types of layout software packages. possible to use mathematical operators in FactoryCAD The ``academic'' software packages which used ecient, commands. Although a calculator is provided, it would optimization algorithms were good in providing near- be useful 
TI - Review of Factory Programs – FactoryCAD, FactoryFLOW, and FactoryPLAN
JO - IIE Transactions
DO - 10.1023/A:1017159406683
DA - 2004-10-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/review-of-factory-programs-factorycad-factoryflow-and-factoryplan-k1beLMdHdS
SP - 409
EP - 410
VL - 30
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -