A review of intelligent approaches for designing dynamic and robust layouts in flexible manufacturing systems

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 11-27

  Moslemipour, Ghorbanali ^a   Lee, Tian Soon ^a   Rilling, Dirk ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Dynamic layout; Facility layout problem; Intelligent approaches; Mathematical models; Robust layout

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CRITICAL ISSUES; DYNAMIC LAYOUT; FACILITY LAYOUT; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS; GRAPH-THEORETIC MODELS; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT APPROACHES; LARGE SIZES; MANUFACTURING COST; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DEMAND; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT; ROBUST LAYOUT; SET COVERINGS; SOLUTION METHODS; VOLATILE ENVIRONMENTS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANT LAYOUT; SURVEYS;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859552114     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-011-3614-x     Document Type: Review

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