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Integrated RMS Layout and Flow Path Design: Modelling and a Heuristic method

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This paper proposed a new model for the integrated layout and flow path design problem of reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) using AGV and developed a heuristic method for it. In the proposed model, the layout and the flow path were considered at the same time. And the objective was to minimize the total material handling cost. A heuristic method, named EMLG, was developed to solve the proposed model. Variable neighbourhood search was adopted in the local search procedure of EMLG. The forces of particles were calculated separately and the particles were moved separately. Several computation cases were carried out. The computation results show that the solution quality of the integrated model is much better than that of the step by step one and the proposed method is able to complete computation in limited time and gets high quality solutions. This indicates that the proposed method is effective.

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Acknowledgments

This work was a Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and was partially supported by the Project of High-tech Key Laboratory of Agricultural Equipment and Intelligentization of Jiangsu Province under grant: BM2009703, the School Fundation of Jiangsu University under grant: 11JDG043, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant: 51005160, and the Collegiate Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under grant: 10KJB410001.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology, Ministry of Education, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China

    Xianping Guan & Baijing Qiu

  2. School of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

    Hongbing Yang

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  1. Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing, China, People's Republic

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  2. Zhejiang Gongshang University, Beijing, China, People's Republic

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  3. Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China, People's Republic

    Yun Lin

  4. , School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, East District of Wuhan University, Luoshi Road 122, Wuhan, 4300, China, People's Republic

    Xiaozhu Liu

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Guan, X., Qiu, B., Yang, H. (2012). Integrated RMS Layout and Flow Path Design: Modelling and a Heuristic method. In: He, X., Hua, E., Lin, Y., Liu, X. (eds) Computer, Informatics, Cybernetics and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 107. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1839-5_43

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