Find a practicable machine layout

Factory layout design software visualizes the optimal arrangement for the factory layout

Your task as a planner is to find a spatial structure for the objects or areas which requires e.g. efforts in transportation as little as possible. This constitutes a task of optimization.

You will be assisted by the Layout optimization feature of visTABLE® by way of heuristics. In other words: You – ideally as a member of a workshop team – must arrange the objects manually, based on appropriate information provided by way of the priority list and the coloring of the objects in the layout, which indicate how objects or areas are to be arranged relative to (in the vicinity of) other objects. The improvement or worsening of the spatial structure compared the previous arrangement is visualized by way of the efforts indicator above the priority list. Usually, iteration steps are required to achieve a good structure.

Video tutorials for layout optimization

Tip: Basic written tutorials for creating a visTABLE® layout project are available here.

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Online documentation

All visTABLE® software functions are clearly documented in the help. Overview graphics or short videos at the beginning of each help topic show what the respective function does in principle. There is also a basic chapter for each visTABLE® app.