Single linkage versus average linkage clustering in machine cells formation applications
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Cell formation using tabu search
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Collection of papers on Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
A tabu search approach to the cell formation problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Genetic algorithm for maximizing the parts flow within cells in manufacturing cell design
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue on computational intelligence for industrial engineering
A genetic algorithm approach to cellular manufacturing systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
An evolutionary algorithm for manufacturing cell formation
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Study on continuous network design problem using simulated annealing and genetic algorithm
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Genetic algorithm approach for solving a cell formation problem in cellular manufacturing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Optimization of system reliability in multi-factory production networks by maintenance approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Collaborative particle swarm optimization with a data mining technique for manufacturing cell design
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A high performing metaheuristic for job shop scheduling with sequence-dependent setup times
Applied Soft Computing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Grenade Explosion Method-A novel tool for optimization of multimodal functions
Applied Soft Computing
BGSA: binary gravitational search algorithm
Natural Computing: an international journal
Applying simulated annealing for designing cellular manufacturing systems using MDmTSP
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Group technology based adaptive cell formation using predator-prey genetic algorithm
Applied Soft Computing
Cell formation in group technology using constraint programming and Boolean satisfiability
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Solving manufacturing cell design problems using constraint programming
IEA/AIE'12 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: advanced research in applied artificial intelligence
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
CAPSO: Centripetal accelerated particle swarm optimization
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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The cell formation problem determines the decomposition of the manufacturing cells of a production system in which machines are assigned to these cells to process one or more part families so that each cell is operated independently and the intercellular movements are minimized or the number of parts flow processed within cells is maximized. In this study, a simple yet effective simulated annealing-based approach, SACF, is proposed to solve the cell formation problem. Considerable efforts are devoted to the design of parts and machine assignment procedures to direct SACF to converge to solutions with good values of grouping efficacy. A set of 25 test problems with various sizes drawn from the literature is used to test the performance of the proposed heuristic algorithm. The corresponding results are compared to several well-known algorithms published. The comparative study shows that the proposed SACF algorithm improves the grouping efficacy for 72% of the test problems. The proposed algorithm should thus be useful to both practitioners and researchers.