Megala, N.; Rajendran, Chandrasekharan; Gopalan, Ram - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 2 (2008) 3, pp. 298-336
In this paper, we consider the problem of cell-formation in cellular manufacturing systems with the objective of 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...