In this paper, we present a heuristic for designing facility layouts that are convenient for designing a unidirectional loop for material handling. We use genetic algorithm where the objective function and crossover and mutation operators have all been designed specifically for this purpose. Our design is made under flexible bay structure and comparisons are made with other layouts from the literature that were designed under flexible bay structure.
@article{arxiv.1211.2361,
title = {Genetic Algorithm for Designing a Convenient Facility Layout for a Circular Flow Path},
author = {Hossein Jahandideh and Ardavan Asef-Vaziri and Mohammad Modarres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2361},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Accepted to the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: Swarm Intelligence Symposium. This paper has been withdrawn by the author, by the request of the supervisor, to be updated, fixed, and combined with other papers