ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a facility layout design system using Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC). Facility Layout Problem (FLP) is concerned with `finding the ``most efficient" arrangement of departments within a facility'. In much of the research, the 'efficiency' of the arrangement is measured by the material handling costs, that can be expressed as the product of distance times fows between departments. The facility layout planning in practice, however, needs different criteria considering productive, financial and environmental factors, and thus, the most algorithms are not directly applicable for most industrial application. In this paper, we applied IEC that optimizes the facility layout based on human subjective evaluation. We used the original fitness inference system that enables efficient reflection of evaluator's concept with less human evaluation effort.