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.