Using Discrete Event Simulation to evaluate Operating Theater Layout

Abdelahad Chraibi (1, 2) , Abdessamad Ait El Cadi (1, 3) , Said Kharraja (2) , Abdelhakim Artiba (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 LASPI - Laboratoire d'Analyse des Signaux et des Processus Industriels
3 IRT Railenium - L'Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) de la filière Ferroviaire

The layout planning of an organization is known to have a great impact on its quality and performance during daily operations. The Operating Theater (OT) is an organization characterized by a fluctuating production and unpredictability of care demand. This unpredictability of populations’ needs has an impact on the required human and material resources and makes the OT a dynamic environment. To deal with this stochastic property when planning the OT layout, we developed a robust optimization approach combining mathematical programming, discrete event simulation (DES), and improvement heuristics. The model aims to generate a robust OT layout considering various scenarios with stochastic patient flows.

Mots clés: "Operating Theater Layout Problem"; "simulation"; "ARENA"; "OptQuest"; "Healthcare"

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Abdelahad Chraibi, Abdessamad Ait El Cadi, Said Kharraja, Abdelhakim Artiba. Using Discrete Event Simulation to evaluate Operating Theater Layout. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Jun 2016, Troyes, France. pp.95-98, ⟨10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.556⟩. ⟨hal-03383338⟩