| Article ID: | iaor19981360 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 82 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 592 |
| End Page Number: | 614 |
| Publication Date: | May 1995 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Souilah Abdelghani |
| Keywords: | layout |
In this paper, we first present the general Simulated Annealing algorithm. We then show how it has been used to group resources into manufacturing cells, to design the intra-cell layout, and to place the manufacturing cells on the available shop-floor surface. Some numerical examples are used to illustrate these approaches.