TY - GEN
T1 - Two-stage inter-cell layout design for cellular manufacturing by using ant colony optimization algorithms
AU - Xing, Bo
AU - Gao, Wen Jing
AU - Nelwamondo, Fulufhelo V.
AU - Battle, Kimberly
AU - Marwala, Tshilidzi
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Facility layout planning plays an important role in the manufacturing process and seriously impacts a company's profitability. A well-planned layout can significantly reduce the total material handling cost. The purpose of this paper is to develop a two-stage inter-cell layout optimization approach by using one of the popular meta-heuristics - the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. At the first stage, the cells are formed based on the part-machine clustering results obtained through the ant system algorithm. In other words, we get the initial inter-cell layout after this stage. The work at the second stage uses a hybrid ant system algorithm to improve the solution obtained at previous stage. Different performance measures are also employed in this paper to evaluate the results.
AB - Facility layout planning plays an important role in the manufacturing process and seriously impacts a company's profitability. A well-planned layout can significantly reduce the total material handling cost. The purpose of this paper is to develop a two-stage inter-cell layout optimization approach by using one of the popular meta-heuristics - the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm. At the first stage, the cells are formed based on the part-machine clustering results obtained through the ant system algorithm. In other words, we get the initial inter-cell layout after this stage. The work at the second stage uses a hybrid ant system algorithm to improve the solution obtained at previous stage. Different performance measures are also employed in this paper to evaluate the results.
KW - ant colony optimization (ACO)
KW - cell formation (CF)
KW - cellular manufacturing (CM)
KW - inter-cell layout (ICL)
KW - material handling cost
KW - quadratic assignment problem (QAP)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954629486&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13495-1_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13495-1_35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954629486
SN - 3642134947
SN - 9783642134944
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 281
EP - 289
BT - Advances in Swarm Intelligence - First International Conference, ICSI 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 1st International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2010
Y2 - 12 June 2010 through 15 June 2010
ER -