Monarch Butterfly Optimization for Facility Layout Design Based on a Single Loop Material Handling Path

Minhee Kim and Junjae Chae
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Minhee Kim: School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University, 76, Hanggonddaehak-ro, Deoyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 10540, Korea
Junjae Chae: School of Air Transport, Transportation and Logistics, Korea Aerospace University, 76, Hanggonddaehak-ro, Deoyang-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 10540, Korea

Mathematics, 2019, vol. 7, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: Facility layout problems (FLPs) are concerned with the non-overlapping arrangement of facilities. The objective of many FLP-based studies is to minimize the total material handling cost between facilities, which are considered as rectangular blocks of given space. However, it is important to integrate a layout design associated with continual material flow when the system uses circulating material handling equipment. The present study proposes approaches to solve the layout design and shortest single loop material handling path. Monarch butterfly optimization (MBO), a recently-announced meta-heuristic algorithm, is applied to determine the layout configuration. A loop construction method is proposed to construct a single loop material handling path for the given layout in every MBO iteration. A slicing tree structure (STS) is used to represent the layout configuration in solution form. A total of 11 instances are tested to evaluate the algorithm’s performance. The proposed approach generates solutions as intended within a reasonable amount of time.

Keywords: facility layout design; single loop; monarch butterfly optimization; slicing tree structure; material handling path; integrated design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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