Ying, Kuo-Ching; Lin, Shih-Wei; Lu, Chung-Cheng - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 5 (2011) 1, pp. 22-42
The broad applications of cellular manufacturing make the cell formation problem (CFP) a core subject in the field of manufacturing. Due to the combinatorial nature of the CFP, a simulated annealing-based meta-heuristic with variable neighbourhood was developed to form part-machine cells. To...