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P. Arikaran, Dr. V. Jayabalan, R. Senthilkumar Analysis of Unequal Areas Facility Layout Problems P.Arikaran arivarsini_2006@ Research scholar, Dept. of Manufacturing, Anna University, Chennai 600 025 India Professor H.O.D.,Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, M.N.M. Jain Engineering College, Chennai 600097, phone: 9444154329 Dr. V. Jayabalan jbalan@ Professor, Dept. of Manufacturing and Controller of Examinations, Anna University, Chennai 600 025 India R. Senthilkumar rskumar1967@ Assistant Professor, Dept.of Mechanical Engineering, M.N.M. Jain Engineering College, Chennai 600097, India ______________________________________________________ Abstract The facility layout design has been regarded as the key to improve plant productivity, which are relevant to both manufacturing problems; various optimization approaches for small problems and heuristic approaches for the larger problems have been proposed to elucidate the problem. Unequal area facility layout problems comprise a class of extremely difficult and widely applicable optimization problems, arising in many diverse areas. There are many variations on the basic formulation, involving alternative objective functions, side constraints, distance metrics, cost measures, and facility shapes. Various techniques were applied after finding the solution through traditional methods to get much improved optimum solutions. Different heuristics were used to solve the unequal area facility layout problems. Multi- objective approac