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Lei Demingu
Wu Zhiming
Institute of
Automation,
Shanghai Jiaotong University,
Shanghai 200030, China |
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INTEGRATION OF
CELL FORMATION AND LAYOUT DESIGN IN THE
UNIDIRECTIONAL LOOP MATERIAL HANDLING ENVIRONMENT*
Abstract: A two-phase approach is proposed to deal with the integration problem in the loop layout. Tabu search is applied to cell construction in phase 1 to minimize the inter-cell flow, and the heuristic for layout design is used as phase 2 to optimize the sum of intra-cell and inter-cell transportation cost. The final computational results demonstrate the validation of the two-phase approach.
Key words:
Unidirectiona loop Cell formation Layout design Tabu search |