Date Available

12-7-2011

Year of Publication

2008

Document Type

Thesis

College

Engineering

Department

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

First Advisor

Fazleena Badurdeen

Abstract

Artificial neural networks, so far, have not been used for designing modular cells. Therefore, Self-organizing neural network (SONN) is used in the present research to design minicell-based manufacturing system. Two previously developed methods were studied and implemented using SONN model. Results obtained are compared with previous results to analyze the effectiveness of SONN in designing minicells. A new method is then developed with the objective to design minicells more effectively and efficiently. Results of all three methods are compared using machine-count and materialhandling as performance measuring criteria to find out the best method

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