Date of Award
2011
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Keywords
Engineering, Industrial.
Supervisor
Wang, Hunglin (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering)
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Although there exists several ways of solving the cellular manufacturing problem, including several ant-based algorithms, many of these algorithms focus on obtaining the best possible answer instead of efficiency. An existing artificial-ant based algorithm AntClass, was modified so that it is easier to manipulate. AntClass uses Euclidean vectors to measure the similarity between parts, because similarity is used to group parts together instead of distances, the modified version uses similarity coefficients. The concept of heaping clusters was also introduced to ant algorithms for cellular manufacturing. Instead of using Euclidean vectors to measure the distance to the center of a heap, as in the AntClass algorithm, an average similarity was introduced to measure the similarity between a part and a heap. The algorithm was tested on five common similarity coefficients to determine the similarity coefficient which gives the better quality solution and the most efficient process.
Recommended Citation
Taboun, Mohammed, "Development of Manufacturing Cells Using an Artificial Ant-Based Algorithm with Different Similarity Coefficients" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 159.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/159