| Article ID: | iaor20084084 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 255 |
| End Page Number: | 294 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Journal: | Pesquisa Operacional |
| Authors: | Ochi L.S., Trindade A.R. |
| Keywords: | cellular manufacturing |
The Manufacturing Cell Formation Problem (MCFP) is a crucial component of a cell production design in a manufacturing system. This problem is composed by a set of parts of products to be manufactured and machines. The objective is to construct manufacturing clusters by associating products with cell machines. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm to solve the MCFP. Computational results with the proposed algorithm on a set of instances available in the literature are also presented. For 8 out of 36 instances considered, the proposed method overcame the previous results from the literature and for 26 instances, the same best solutions were found.