Artificial Particle Swarm Optimization with Heuristic Procedure to Solve Multi-Line Facility Layout Problem

The facility layout problem (FLP) has an important effect on the efficiency and the profitability of the manufacturing system from the standpoint of the cost and time. This research has objective to minimize total material handling cost. Multi-line facility layout problems (MLFLP) is FLP that assigns a few facilities in the two or more lines into industrial plant, where the number of the facilities is less than the number of the locations with no constraint for placing the facilities. This study present Heuristic Artificial Particle Swarm Optimization (HAPSO) a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm to solve MLFLP and it consider the multi-products. The proposed algorithm applied to the case study from other paper. The computational results indicate that the proposed algorithm more effective and efficient to solve the case.