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Ravi Shankar Rai

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• Research Article
  Design and Optimization of Loop Layout in Flexible Manufacturing System using Particle Swarm Optimization
  Author(s): Ravi Shankar Rai and SC JayswalRavi Shankar Rai and SC Jayswal
  
  To design any manufacturing setup we need to focus on design of facility layout and it has a huge impact on the performance of the manufacturing system. so the Optimum arrangement of layout is important in order to achieve high productivity in flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The objective of the loop layout problem is the determination of the ordering of machines around a loop, to minimize the total number of loop traversals for a family of parts. The problem we address is to design the layout of the system so that the number of machines that the part types cross in their manufacturing process is minimized. We formulate the problem mathematically and solve it by a meta-heuristics that obtains consistently better results than an earlier popular method. Since, optimum arrangements of layout is a combinatorial problem so finding the best combination out of millions of combinations i.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/0976-4860.1000202

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