A stochastic facility layout model in cellular manufacturing systems.
Facility layout which is the arrangement of facilities in the shop-floor has a great impact on the performance of manufacturing systems, while in volatile manufacturing systems; any kinds of change can degrade the performance of the system and leads to inefficiency of the layout. In this paper, a ne...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English English |
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Academic Journals
2011
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23527/1/A%20stochastic%20facility%20layout%20model%20in%20cellular%20manufacturing%20systems.pdf |
Summary: | Facility layout which is the arrangement of facilities in the shop-floor has a great impact on the performance of manufacturing systems, while in volatile manufacturing systems; any kinds of change can degrade the performance of the system and leads to inefficiency of the layout. In this paper, a new mathematical model for layout problems in cellular manufacturing systems has been proposed that considers the stochastic nature of demand. The model minimizes the total material handling cost (both inter-cell and intra-cell material handling cost), and it is solved by two solution approaches, Lingo optimization software, and an enumeration method. The obtained results show the validity of the mathematical model. |
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