TY - JOUR
T1 - A practical method for design of hybrid-type production facilities
AU - Harhalakis, G.
AU - Lui, T.
AU - Minis, I.
AU - Nagi, R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Westinghouse. ESG and the Maryland Industrial Partnerships under grant # 05-4-30816 and by the Institute for Systems Research of the
Funding Information:
University of Maryland under grant # NSFD CD 8803012. The assistance of Mr Ron Palmer and Mr Dave Delaney of Westinghouse, ESG was invaluable to the completion of this project.
PY - 1996/4
Y1 - 1996/4
N2 - A comprehensive method for the design of hybrid-type production shops, which comprise both manufacturing cells and individual workcentres, is presented. The method targets the minimization of the material handling effort within the shop and includes four basic steps: (1) identification of candidate manufacturing cells, (2) evaluation and selection of the cells to be implemented, (3) determination of the intra-cell layout, and (4) determination of the shop layout. For the cell formation step the 1CTMM technique has been enhanced to cater for important practical issues. The layout of each significant cell is determined by a simulated annealing (SA)-based algorithm. Once the sizes and shapes of the selected cells are known the shop layout is determined by a similar algorithm. The resulting hybrid shop consists of the selected cells and the remaining machines. The methodology has been implemented in an integrated software system and has been applied to redesign the shop of a large manufacturer of radar antennas.
AB - A comprehensive method for the design of hybrid-type production shops, which comprise both manufacturing cells and individual workcentres, is presented. The method targets the minimization of the material handling effort within the shop and includes four basic steps: (1) identification of candidate manufacturing cells, (2) evaluation and selection of the cells to be implemented, (3) determination of the intra-cell layout, and (4) determination of the shop layout. For the cell formation step the 1CTMM technique has been enhanced to cater for important practical issues. The layout of each significant cell is determined by a simulated annealing (SA)-based algorithm. Once the sizes and shapes of the selected cells are known the shop layout is determined by a similar algorithm. The resulting hybrid shop consists of the selected cells and the remaining machines. The methodology has been implemented in an integrated software system and has been applied to redesign the shop of a large manufacturer of radar antennas.
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U2 - 10.1080/00207549608904942
DO - 10.1080/00207549608904942
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030130235
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 34
SP - 897
EP - 918
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 4
ER -