An optimal design approach for a cellular manufacturing system

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 221, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1101-1106

  Girl, R ^a   Srinivas, J ^b   Mouli, K V V C ^c  

^a SCSVMV UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Chaitanya Engineering College Visakhapatnam   (India)

^c GITAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ants colony optimization; Cell formation; Intercell movements; Machine sequence; Part machine incidence matrix

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANTS COLONY OPTIMIZATION; CELL FORMATION; INTERCELL MOVEMENTS; MACHINE SEQUENCES; PART-MACHINE INCIDENCE MATRIX;

CELLULAR MANUFACTURING;

EID: 34748849477     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM813SC     Document Type: Article

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