Techniques for accelerating the designing of manufacturing facilities

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform steps for designing a manufacturing facility, the steps comprising:

• parsing a computer-aided design (CAD) model of the manufacturing facility to identify a plurality of geometric constraints associated with the manufacturing facility;
• parsing metadata associated with the manufacturing facility to identify one or more manufacturing constraints associated with the manufacturing facility that are used to generate at least one design for the manufacturing facility;
• performing, based on the plurality of geometric constraints and the one or more manufacturing constraints, one or more heuristic optimization operations to generate a first design for the manufacturing facility;
• and
• automatically performing one or more genetic optimization operations based on the first design to generate one or more additional designs for the manufacturing facility, wherein the first design comprises a first set of assignments of a set of manufacturing components to a set of loading docks and constitutes a first generation of the one or more genetic optimization operations, and the one or more additional designs constitute subsequent generations of the one or more genetic optimization operations, wherein automatically performing the one or more genetic optimization operations comprises:
• automatically mutating the first set of assignments of the first design to generate a second design comprising a second set of assignments of the set of manufacturing components to the set of loading docks, the second set of assignments being different from the first set of assignments.

A system, comprising:

• one or more memories storing instructions;
• and
• one or more processors that are coupled to the one or more memories and, when executing the instructions, are configured to:
• parse a computer-aided design (CAD) model of a manufacturing facility to identify a plurality of geometric constraints associated with the manufacturing facility,
• parse metadata associated with the manufacturing facility to identify one or more manufacturing constraints associated with the manufacturing facility that are used to generate at least one design for the manufacturing facility,
• perform, based on the plurality of geometric constraints and the one or more manufacturing constraints, one or more heuristic optimization operations to generate a first design for the manufacturing facility, and
• automatically perform one or more genetic optimization operations based on the first design to generate one or more additional designs for the manufacturing facility, wherein the first design comprises a first set of assignments of a set of manufacturing components to a set of loading docks and constitutes a first generation of the one or more genetic optimization operations, and the one or more additional designs constitute subsequent generations of the one or more genetic optimization operations, wherein automatically performing the one or more genetic optimization operations comprises:
• automatically mutating the first set of assignments of the first design to generate a second design comprising a second set of assignments of the set of manufacturing components to the set of loading docks, the second set of assignments being different from the first set of assignments.