TY - GEN
T1 - Swarm intelligence in cellular manufacturing
T2 - 2010 World Automation Congress, WAC 2010
AU - Xing, Bo
AU - Gaol, Wen Jing
AU - Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V.
AU - Battle, Kimberly
AU - Marwala, Tshilidzi
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper analyzes the intra-cell machine re-layout (ICMRL) problem in the context of cellular manufacturing (CM). The proposed method for ICMRL has two phases. First phase consists of a general cell formation procedure in which the initial machine layout is obtained. In the second phase, we formulate ICMRL as a quadratic assignment problem model. Then an ant inspired swarm intelligence approach is used to develop a set of better solution. Since the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are commonly used to transport materials between manufacturing cells, the impact of their guide path characteristics on the final machine layout plan is also considered to find an optimal solution.
AB - This paper analyzes the intra-cell machine re-layout (ICMRL) problem in the context of cellular manufacturing (CM). The proposed method for ICMRL has two phases. First phase consists of a general cell formation procedure in which the initial machine layout is obtained. In the second phase, we formulate ICMRL as a quadratic assignment problem model. Then an ant inspired swarm intelligence approach is used to develop a set of better solution. Since the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are commonly used to transport materials between manufacturing cells, the impact of their guide path characteristics on the final machine layout plan is also considered to find an optimal solution.
KW - Automated guided vehicle
KW - Cellular manufacturing
KW - Hybrid ant system
KW - Intra-cell machine re-layout
KW - Quadratic assignment problem
KW - Swarm intelligence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78651456004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78651456004
SN - 9781424496730
T3 - 2010 World Automation Congress, WAC 2010
BT - 2010 World Automation Congress, WAC 2010
Y2 - 19 September 2010 through 23 September 2010
ER -