Integrated design of workcells and unidirectional flowpath layout

  • Authors:

  • Yoonho Seo;Dongmok Sheen;Chiung Moon;Taioun Kim

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Korea University, Sungbukku, Seoul, Republic of Korea;School of Transportation Systems Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Republic of Korea;Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;Kyungsung University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Kyungsung University, Pusan, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Computational intelligence and information technology applications to industrial engineering selected papers from the 33 rd ICC&IE
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In manufacturing cells layout design with a unidirectional flow system, the accurate distance between two workcells can be uncovered with both the determination of IO port locations after the layout design of the cell with its orientation and the unidirectional flowpath layout design. This paper presents the method to obtain a global solution for manufacturing workcells and unidirectional flowpath layout design (ICFLD) with consideration of IO ports of workcells. The flow distance between two workcells is calculated from output port of one workcell to input port of the other workcell through the unidirectional flowpath layout. A zero-one integer programming model is developed for the ICFLD problem. And a heuristic algorithm for the ICFLD problem is developed by decomposing the ICFLD problem into two subproblems and iteratively and alternately solving the decomposed subproblems. Computational experiments are performed and its results are analyzed.