Megala, N.; Rajendran, Chandrasekharan; Gopalan, Ram - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 2 (2008) 3, pp. 298-336
maximising the grouping efficacy. We propose an Ant-Colony Optimisation (ACO) algorithm to obtain machine-cells and part …-families. The Proposed ACO (PACO) algorithm is tested by using many benchmark data sets. The grouping efficacy obtained by the PACO …. The comparison shows that the PACO performs very well in maximising the grouping efficacy. [Received: 2 May 2007; Revised …