FACILITIES LAYOUT DESIGN OPTIMIZATION WITH SINGLE-LOOP MATERIAL FLOW PATH CONFIGURATION

被引:53
作者
BANERJEE, P
ZHOU, Y
机构
[1] Department of Mechanical Engineering (M/C 251), University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607-7022
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1080/00207549508930143
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Here we formulate the facilities layout design optimization problem for a single loop material flow path configuration. Because of the NP-hard nature of the overall search space, we employ a genetic approach to sample the decomposed search spaces. In addition we analyse the following features of the problem: (1) we estimate lower bounds for the unidirectional flow problem along the loop by analysing the bidirectional flow problem; (2) we intelligently sample the search space by designing a knowledge-augmented genetic operator for layout cases with very low flow path dominance because the regular genetic search does not perform very well in such cases; and (3) we exploit qualitative constraints for reducing travel distances in highly circuitous flow paths.
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页码:183 / 203
页数:21
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