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This paper describes a new approach for facility layout planning using self-organization. The self-organization method is proposed to generate facility layout plans autonomously according to the material flow which emerges from the local interactions among production elements. A case study is presented for a multi-product semiconductor manufacturing in which it is difficult to find a proper layout plan because of large scale of the system and complex process flow. The effectiveness of the proposed method is discussed in the computer simulations by comparing with the current facility layout which is made by human experts in terms of the accumulated traveling mileage of products and Work In Process (WIP) number and Turn Around Time (TAT) of products.
