Abstract
In this paper, an ant colony algorithm is used to solve the machine part cell formation problem based on the machine – index - based local procedure and part assignment rule for the better clustering of machines in to machine cells and parts in to part families. The main objective of this paper is to increase the grouping efficacy which is one of the good performance measures for the cell formation problem. The performance assessment of the ant colony algorithm was carried out by testing with the benchmark problems from the literature. From this assessment it clearly shows that this machine index based local procedure is capable to solve the machine part cell formation problem efficiently.
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