Facility layout planning (FLP) entails a collection of design issues including the placement of elements that define industrial production systems in a physical area. Because they are one of the most essential design considerations in company operation strategies, and because of their demonstrated impact on production system operating costs, efficiency, and productivity, this topic has received a lot of attention in science. In this light, the current paper presents a scientific literature review on FLP from the standpoint of Simulation-Based Optimization. By setting the material handling system and techniques to produce and analyze layout options, the examined papers were categorized as a wide taxonomy based on the kind of problem, strategy, planning stage, and features of production facilities. We emphasis that while mathematical optimization models were primarily used to produce layout options, other techniques such as expert knowledge and specialist software packages were also used. In general, the most often used solution algorithms.