Title: Designing robust stochastic bi-objective cellular layout in manufacturing systems

Authors: Ravi Kumar; Surya Prakash Singh

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India ' Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India

Abstract: In today's competitive and challenging environment, product demand and product mix change very rapidly. To match with the rapid variations in product demand and product mix, layout should be effective and efficient to incorporate all these uncertainties over different time periods. One way to design effective and efficient layout is to make it robust which should be capable to absorb uncertainty in demand and product mix. The paper proposes a novel robust stochastic bi-quadratic assignment programming (RSbi-QAP) model. The proposed robust layout is stochastic bi-objective cellular facility layout in manufacturing systems. The proposed model also incorporates the stochastic demand for multi-products in multi-time periods, and simultaneously minimises material handling cost (MHC) and maximises similarity score (SS). To demonstrate the working methodology of the proposed model numerical illustration is also provided.

Keywords: robust layout; cellular manufacturing; stochastic layout; quadratic assignment problem; QAP; multi-objective layout.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2017.084045

International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2017 Vol.10 No.2, pp.147 - 164

Received: 19 Sep 2016
Accepted: 31 Dec 2016

Published online: 08 May 2017 *

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