en Facilities Design & or Work Space Design Facilities Design & or Work Space Design پژوهشي Research <p>This article addresses a single row facility layout problem where the objective is to optimize the arrangement of some rectangular facilities with different dimensions on a line. Regarding the NP-Hard nature of the considered problem, a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing has been proposed to obtain a near optimal solution. A number of test problems are randomly generated and the results obtained by the proposed hybrid meta-heuristic are compared with exact solutions. The results imply that the proposed hybrid method provides more efficient solutions for the large-sized problem instances.</p> <p><img alt="AWT IMAGE" src="./files/site1/images/2.png" style="width: 250px; height: 250px;" ></p> Flexible Manufacturing System, Single Row Facility Layout Problem, Simulated Annealing. 243 253 http://ijiepr.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-586-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Hasan Hosseini nasab hhn@yazd.ac.ir 180031947532846003506 180031947532846003506 Yes Yazd University Hamid Reza Kamali hrkamali@gmail.com 180031947532846003507 180031947532846003507 No Yazd University