Abstract:
Machine layout and material flow between machines are crucial considerations for improving productivity in any manufacturing environment. The machine layout and the opera...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Machine layout and material flow between machines are crucial considerations for improving productivity in any manufacturing environment. The machine layout and the operations assignment problems are both known to be NP hard problems. In this paper, we introduce a new combined machine layout and operations assignment problem. We propose an evolutionary algorithm to solve the combined machine layout and operations assignment problem. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through numerical examples.
Published in: 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Date of Conference: 25-28 September 2007
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 07 January 2008
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