The paper presents a systematic literature review on big size product manufacturing systems
in MTO and ETO environments. In particular, the analysis is focused on highly customised …

The layout is an important issue in the design of manufacturing systems. In conventional
systems, the layout rarely changes after the initial design. However, as the market demands …

Due to product individualization, customization and rapid technological advances in
manufacturing, production systems are faced with frequent reconfiguration and expansion …

Abstract Coral Reefs Optimization (CRO) is a recently proposed evolutionary-type algorithm
which has shown promising results to tackle many complex optimization problems. This …

An unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) is a typical optimization problem that
occurs when constructing an efficient layout within given areas. In this research, a harmony …

This paper proposes a novel approach to address the Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem
(UA-FLP), based on the combination of both an Island Model and a Coral Reefs …

Abstract The Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem (UA-FLP) is a relevant task in industrial
manufacturing, in which the disposition of a number of facilities (or departments) in a …

The facility layout problem (FLP) is one of the design problems involving the assignment of
facilities (eg, machines, departments) to planar region (eg, a plant), so as to achieve the …

Abstract The Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem (UA-FLP) has been widely analyzed in
the literature using several heuristics and meta-heuristics to optimize some qualitative …

End of life vehicle (ELV) is a significant renewable resource with enormous economic value
and environmental value. This paper introduced a novel approach that combines the gray …