Wong, Kuan Yew and Komarudin, Komarudin (2011) Comparison of techniques for dealing with empty spaces in unequal area facility layout problems. International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 6 (3). 289 - 300. ISSN 1748-5037
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJISE.2010.035013
Abstract
Unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) is one of the active research areas in the manufacturing domain. UA-FLPs can be solved using various techniques such as exact and approximation methods. A problem arises when these methods are used for solving UA-FLPs which have additional empty spaces. Several researchers have proposed different methods to address this issue, but unfortunately their performances have not been compared. Therefore, this article is aimed to compare those techniques used for dealing with empty spaces in UA-FLPs. Since a fair comparison was expected, all the techniques were implemented along with ant system using slicing tree structure representation. They were tested using problem instances taken from the literature. In general, the results showed that the bounding curve is the most encouraging technique for dealing with empty spaces in UA-FLPs.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP), manufacturing facilities, empty spaces |
Subjects: | T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
Divisions: | Mechanical Engineering |
ID Code: | 22967 |
Deposited By: | Narimah Nawil |
Deposited On: | 27 Nov 2012 03:11 |
Last Modified: | 22 Mar 2018 10:30 |
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