FaDE — Facility Design Engine
FaDEFacility Design Engine
Decision Support Tool for Manufacturing & Warehouse Layout Planning
SLP • CRAFT • ABC Slotting

Warehouse Layout Designer

SLP zone placement · WaDE rack fill · ABC slotting · 3D preview

Industry preset

High pick density: forward-pick close to packing, reserve overhead, returns adjacent to inbound.

Building

Docks & gates

30%
70%
30%
70%

Zones

Optimization goals

60
60
50
70

Bulk storage racking system

100% pallet access, counter-balance forklifts. General-purpose baseline.

Aisle
3 cells
Depth
1 deep
Pallets/bay
3
Access
100%

Regional warehouse standards

No custom standards

Financial assumptions

How the layout is generated

1 · SLP placement. Each zone is scored against every other using A / E / I / O / U / X relationships. Zones are placed as coherent rectangles in priority order — no post-hoc swaps, so zones stay contiguous and never fragment across the plan.

2 · WaDE rack fill. Inside each rackable zone, bays & aisles are laid along the longer axis using each zone's aisle width, then bays are split into A / B / C classes by distance from the closest aisle (ABC slotting).

3 · KPIs, financials & obstacles are computed from the resulting grid: rack counts, storage positions, CAPEX / OPEX, payback, plus any unplaced or fragmented zones.

Configure zones and hit Generate layout to run SLP + rack-fill.