A NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN IN CELLULAR MANUFACTURING SYSTEM

This paper deals with the cellular manufacturing system (CMS) that is based on group technology (GT) concepts. CMS is defined as identifying the similar parts that are processed on the same machines and then grouping them as a cell. In facility layout design, the problem of locating facilities in cellular manufacturing system was formulated as a non-linear mixed integer program. The objective function consists of two cost components. The first term is the intracellular material handling cost, and the second term denotes the inter-cellular material handling cost. Some numerical examples are solved with LINGO software to demonstrate validity of the proposed model.

کلیدواژه ها:

Cellular manufacturing ، Facility layout design ، Material handling cost ، Mathematical model