Article ID: | iaor19993141 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 109 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 286 |
End Page Number: | 298 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1998 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Gravel Marc, Price Wilson, Nsakanda Aaron Luntala |
Keywords: | production |
We present a genetic approach for finding efficient solutions to the problem of forming manufacturing cells for products having multiple routings. We consider the case where there are two criteria. The method that we propose seeks to generate the efficient set of solutions, that is the set of non-dominated solutions. The manager may then choose a solution knowing the consequences for each of the objectives. We address the computational difficulty of this problem and present a numerical example.