Development of a simulation-based optimisation for controlling operation allocation and material handling equipment selection in FMS |
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Authors: | Iraj Mahdavi Babak Shirazi Navid Sahebjamnia |
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Affiliation: | 1. Mazandaran University of Science and Technology , Babol, Iran irajarash@rediffmail.com;3. Mazandaran University of Science and Technology , Babol, Iran |
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Abstract: | Flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is described as a set of computerised numerical controlled machines, input–output buffers interconnected by automated material handling devices. This paper develops a bi-objective operation allocation and material handling equipment selection problem in FMS with the aim of minimising the machine operation, material handling and machine setup costs and maximising the machine utilisation. The proposed model is solved by a modified chaotic ant swarm simulation based optimisation (CAS2O) while applying pre-selection and discrete recombination operators is surveyed a capable method to simulate different experiments of FMS problems. A test problem is selected from the literature to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach. The results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method to solve the FMS scheduling problem. |
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Keywords: | automated flexible manufacturing system operation allocation material handling equipment selection simulation based optimisation |
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