Global competition in manufacturing has made proficient facilities planning an important issue in industrial engineering and technology. From plant layout and materials handling to quality function deployment and design considerations, Manufacturing Facilities covers a wide range of topics crucial to the efficiency of a well-planned facility. Updated and revised, this third edition features new topics including lean manufacturing, agile manufacturing, supply chain effects, aggregate planning, scheduling, resource planning, graph theory, economic evaluation of processes, information technology. This edition also includes new mathematical methods, problems, and layout software.