Facilities Planning is one of the major courses in industrial engineering containing the location and layout problems. Decision making about the facility location and layout problems is not only investigated in industrial cases but also appears in miscellaneous problems such as locating service centers like police stations, emergencies, hospitals, fire stations, … . The facility location problem is to consider location of a facility so as to reach the specified objectives. For the purpose some criteria such as proximity to main roads, markets, suppliers, availability of labors, environmental conditions, expansion possibility, government regulations and etc. … are effective. In the facility layout, locations of components in the facility are determined to reach the best efficiency.

Feasibility Studies is to provide efficiency methodology for technical, economic and financial investigating of investment proposals which lead to goods production or service providing. The applied methodology and qualified pre-investment study helps to create safety conditions for selecting type and method investment and reduce the error of investment. The investigation consists of good specification and marketing analysis with production or services process consideration, the location problem, financial and economic analysis and schedule for executing the proposal which could provide appropriate conditions for decision making about feasibility of the proposals.

Project control consists of controlling a set of activities which should be executed on specified dates with determined costs and qualities. Project could be building, production, research cases and etc. the main principal in project control is planning and scheduling according to time and cost parameters and available tools to execute the project in the most economical manner as possible. The mentioned control is done after receiving project progress and deviation and doing corrective changes and optimization of executing procedures. Some methods such as critical path with float calculation,resources allocation and leveling are applied for controlling activities.