Thls art1cte presents a comparison of thc hcuristlcs.Tabu Search (TS) and Genctic Atgorlthm (GA). thathave been proposed, for thc sotution of comptexproblems ofcombinatory optimizat1on in facititylayout.These methodolog1es, have obtained distributlons ofdepartments of better quahty, evaluatcd and reported1n hterature. The results show, which technlque hasgreater quality level , in the sotut1on and computat1onalrap1d1ty in problems of space distribut1on in Industrialplants.