Innovations in facilities and material handling systems
Industrial Engineering
Machine layout problem in flexible manufacturing systems
Operations Research
Algorithms for the vehicle routing problems with time deadlines
American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences - Special issue: vehicle routing 2000: advances in time windows, optimality, fast bounds, & multi-depot routing
An optimization model and multiple matching heuristics for quality planning in manufacturing systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A new heuristic method for mixed model assembly line balancing problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Design of a suitable production management system for a manufacturing company
Computers and Industrial Engineering - 26th International conference on computers and industrial engineering
Heuristic approaches for part assignment in cell formation
Computers and Industrial Engineering - 26th International conference on computers and industrial engineering
An agent-based dynamic routing strategy for automated material handling systems
International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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In this study, a transporter routing problem is analyzed and adapted for use in manufacturing facility design. Given fixed facility layout and predetermined material flow paths, this study determines the minimum number of transporters required to transfer material within a given manufacturing facility with minimal handling effort. The manufacturing facility design problem is particularly complex and involves the sub-problems such as design of the material network and the transporter routing problem, which provides the fleet size and the routing of each transporter over the flow network. The problem is formulated as an integer program. To solve the problem, we used a heuristic and integrated vehicle routing model. We also developed a heuristic solution program and several tests along with an industrial example to indicate the effectiveness of this method.