An integrated approach to facilities layout using expert systems

Abdou, G.; Dutta, S. P.

doi:10.1080/00207549008942749

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“…Layout algorithms have been developed in the past and can be classi® ed into several classes A genetic algorithm approach to manufacturing system design (Kusiak and Heragu 1987): (1) construction methods (Lee and Moore 1967), (2) improvement methods (Hillier 1963, Khalil 1973, (3) hybrid methods (O'Brien and Abdel Barr 1980) and (4) graph theoretic methods (Carrie et al 1978, Foulds andRobinson 1978). Other approaches are also presented by Malakooti and Tsurushima (1989), Abdou and Dutta (1990), Heragu and Kusiak (1990), Tam and Li (1991) and Harmonsky and Tothero (1992).…”

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A genetic algorithms-based approach for design of manufacturing systems: An industrial application

Rao¹

1999

International Journal of Production Research

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This paper presents a design methodology and a genetic algorithm-based approach for redesign of a manufacturing system for a small steel pre-fabricated building manufacturer. Through the application of celular manufacturing principles, we discuss the application of the design methodology that takes a topdown approach to determine system needs and a bottom-up integrated design approach to develop the con® gurations of the manufacturing system. The integrated design approach uses a genetic algorithm and an AutoCAD interface to minimize the inter and intra cell material movements during cell formation. A selected set of solutions obtained are further analysed using discrete event modelling and simulation. The ® nal results presented indicate a substantial improvement in overall performance compared to the original layout. The company has implemented a modi® ed version of the ® nal solution and has achieved the signi® cant improvements in material handling and overall productivity.

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Section: Con® Guration Design Methodsmentioning

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A genetic algorithms-based approach for design of manufacturing systems: An industrial application

Rao¹

1999

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Grobelny (1987) presented one possibly 'fuzzy' approach to FLPs. Abdou and Dutta (1990) presented an integrated approach to facilities layout design using expert system. Cambron and Evans (1991) used different computer-aided layout design methods to generate a set of design alternatives that are then evaluated by AHP against a set of design criteria.…”

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An Integrated AHP-VIKOR Methodology for Facility Layout Design

Shokri¹,

Ashjari²,

Saberi³

et al. 2013

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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A facility layout design (FLD) problem can be generally introduced as assignment of facilities (departments) to a site such that a set of criteria are satisfied or some objectives are minimized (maximized). Hence, it can be considered as a multi-criteria problem due to the presence of qualitative criteria such as maintenance or flexibility and quantitative criteria such as the total cost of handling material. The VIKOR method was developed to solve multiple criteria decision making problems with conflicting and non-commensurable (different units) criteria, assuming that compromising is acceptable for conflict resolution, the decision maker wants a solution that is the closest to the ideal, and the alternatives are evaluated according to all established criteria. This paper proposes a hierarchical analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and VIKOR approach to solve the FLD problem. A computer-aided layout-planning tool is adopted to generate the facility layout problems, as well as their quantitative data. The qualitative performance measures are weighted by AHP. VIKOR is then used to solve the FLD problem. Finally, the proposed integrated procedure is applied to three real-time examples.

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“…Heuristic algorithms facing unit load balance Level three: the establishment of heuristic algorithms facing unit load balance[9] . Sometimes the load between manufacturing units is quite unbalanced, which not only is a direct reflection of the production line efficiency and equipment utilization[10] , but also affects the quality of the products.…”

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Reconfigurable manufacturing unit formation technique based on three-stage method

Zheng

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE 18th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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The article is based on a certain practical production problem of Transmission Co., Ltd.It provides the mathematical description of reconfigurable manufacturing unit formation technology and use IDEF0 for functional analysis. This paper puts forward three-stage method for building units: The first stage is building process route by improving the model of gray-equipment selection model. The second stage is building costs-equipment distribution model based on minimization of cost. The third stage is building heuristics to the balance of unit load.Keywords -Grey relational model ,IDEF0 method, reconfigurable manufacturing unit formation techniques ___________________________________ 978-1-61284-449-7/11/$26.00 ©2011 IEEE

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An integrated approach to facilities layout using expert systems

Cited by 49 publications

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A genetic algorithms-based approach for design of manufacturing systems: An industrial application

A genetic algorithms-based approach for design of manufacturing systems: An industrial application

An Integrated AHP-VIKOR Methodology for Facility Layout Design

Reconfigurable manufacturing unit formation technique based on three-stage method

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