Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach

Cellular manufacturing (CM) has been recognized as an innovative practice for companies to regain competitive advantages under today's small-to-medium lot manufacturing environment. Among the necessary decisions for a successful CM implementation, cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are t...

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Main Authors: WU, X. D, CHU, Chao-Hsien, WANG, Y. F., YAN, W.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sis_research-21612011-01-04T01:50:13Z Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach WU, X. D CHU, Chao-Hsien WANG, Y. F. YAN, W. Cellular manufacturing (CM) has been recognized as an innovative practice for companies to regain competitive advantages under today's small-to-medium lot manufacturing environment. Among the necessary decisions for a successful CM implementation, cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are the two most popular ones. These decisions have received extensive attention but are often treated as separate or sequential processes, despite their cross impact on each other. In this paper, we propose a new approach to concurrently solve the CF and GL problems. A conceptual framework and mathematical model, which integrates these two decisions and incorporates some important factors, such as operation sequence, part demand, transfer batch, machine capacity, and layout type, are proposed. A hierarchical genetic algorithm (HGA) is developed to solve the integrated cell design problem. The results from our investigations show that: (1) the proposed HGA procedure performs better than two other heuristics, and (2) the concurrent approach often finds better solutions than the sequential one. 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1162 info:doi/10.1080/00207540500338252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540500338252 Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Cellular manufacturing Cell formation Group layout Genetic algorithms Computer Sciences Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
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Singapore
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topic Cellular manufacturing
Cell formation
Group layout
Genetic algorithms
Computer Sciences
Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
spellingShingle Cellular manufacturing
Cell formation
Group layout
Genetic algorithms
Computer Sciences
Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
WU, X. D
CHU, Chao-Hsien
WANG, Y. F.
YAN, W.
Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
description Cellular manufacturing (CM) has been recognized as an innovative practice for companies to regain competitive advantages under today's small-to-medium lot manufacturing environment. Among the necessary decisions for a successful CM implementation, cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are the two most popular ones. These decisions have received extensive attention but are often treated as separate or sequential processes, despite their cross impact on each other. In this paper, we propose a new approach to concurrently solve the CF and GL problems. A conceptual framework and mathematical model, which integrates these two decisions and incorporates some important factors, such as operation sequence, part demand, transfer batch, machine capacity, and layout type, are proposed. A hierarchical genetic algorithm (HGA) is developed to solve the integrated cell design problem. The results from our investigations show that: (1) the proposed HGA procedure performs better than two other heuristics, and (2) the concurrent approach often finds better solutions than the sequential one.
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author WU, X. D
CHU, Chao-Hsien
WANG, Y. F.
YAN, W.
author_facet WU, X. D
CHU, Chao-Hsien
WANG, Y. F.
YAN, W.
author_sort WU, X. D
title Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
title_short Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
title_full Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
title_fullStr Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
title_full_unstemmed Concurrent Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
title_sort concurrent design of cellular manufacturing systems: a genetic algorithm approach
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2006
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207540500338252
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