Sunderesh Heragu

author of "Facilities Design"

December 8, 2016

Sunderesh S. Heragu is Regents Professor and Head of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University where he holds the Donald and Cathey Humphreys Chair. Previously, he was the Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics and Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI) at the University of Louisville. He has also served as Professor of at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Assistant Professor in State University of New York, Plattsburgh, and held visiting appointments at: State University of New York, Buffalo; Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands; University of Twente, the Netherlands; and IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

He is the author of the fourth edition of "Facilities Design" and has authored or co-authored over two hundred articles. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on research projects totaling over $20 million funded by federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, Defense Logistics Agency and private companies such as General Electric. Dr. Heragu is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He has received IISE's David F. Baker Distinguished Research award, Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering, two best paper awards from IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing Award, and the Gold Award of Excellence for leadership in Facilities Planning and Design.

Dedicated to the proper design, layout, and location of facilities, this definitive guide outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems, explains the significance of facility design and planning problems, and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them. Combining theory with practice, this revised work presents state-of-the-art topics in materials handling, warehousing, and logistics along with real-world examples that emphasize the importance of modeling and analysis when determining a solution to complex facility design problems.

The fourth edition introduces new material that includes handling equipment and systems, and presents relevant case studies in each and every chapter. It also provides access to Layout-iQ software, data files for many of the numerical examples that are contained throughout the book, and PowerPoint files for various chapters.

Additionally, the author:

Describes tools commonly used for presenting layout designs
Presents traditional models for facility layout including the popular systematic layout planning (SLP) model in detail
Provides a layout project involving the SLP model
Covers group technology and cellular manufacturing at the elementary level
Includes a project and a case study on machine grouping and layout
Considers next-generation factory layouts
Discusses analytical queuing and queuing network models, and more

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2017-honorees-b/sunderesh-heragu

Last Updated: 12 January 2022