Determining the optimal layout?

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In summary, the conversation is about determining the optimal layout for material handling operations in industrial plants and safety warehouses. The concept of a single cycle is discussed, where a round trip transfer is made between the point of input/output and the storage location. The goal is to minimize the average path length and a formula is provided to calculate this. The question of what constitutes an average path and the difference between input/output points and allocation points is also raised. The formula for determining the optimal conditions is given and it is noted that the area is equal to the product of the two variables.
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Good day all,
I m currently studying how to determine "the optimal layout" in INDUSTRIAL PLANT & SAFETY WAREHOUSES course, and I was stucked with the following section:
Material Handling operation

Single cycle:
• it is an handling operation of input or output of a SKU
• consists of a round trip transfer between the point I/O and the generic location of storage
• in the input cycle the way back is "unloaded“
• in the output cycle the way to is "unloaded“
and then the slide goes to the following section:
allocation.png

I really need to understand :
  1. what do they mean by single cycle?
  2. what are they trying to do in the picture i'have posted bellow? I really tried the whole day to find a hint but uselessly
Many thanks in advance!
 
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You simply want to minimize the average path length. Take ## \frac{dr}{dU}=0 ##. Have you had any calculus yet? After that, there's just a little algebra to see how ## U ## and ## V ## are related for optimal conditions.
 
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Thanks for your pr ompt reply,
my issue is not calculus related, i need to understand what do they mean by average path!? what is the idea behind this why is the input out put point different from allocation?
many thanks in advance!
 
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I didn't look at the diagram very carefully, but they give you the answer=formula here. I don't know how they arrived at their first formula=if you study their diagram, maybe it makes perfect sense, but it really doesn't need to. They give you the formula for ## r ##, and that is the one that they expect you to use.
One item you should recognize is area ## A=UV ##. (That's how they got the second formula for ## r ## from the first one).
 
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THANKS!
 
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