摘要：AbstractThis paper describes a multi-objective approach that assesses the evolution and layout transition efforts between products of a product family in reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) design. The layout evolution effort is minimized and system performance metrics (i.e., average machine utilization and alternative replacement machines within the system) are maximized. The problem considers various manufacturing constraints as well as various metrics to ensure the high performance of the designed reconfigurable manufacturing system following the generated layouts. The effectiveness of the developed approach is evaluated using an illustrative numerical example. The results show the effectiveness of the multi-objective approach to help decision maker’s designing RMS. The approach can be used later to guarantee a better system performance when solving the problems of machine layout in the context of RMS.
