Manufacturing Technology 2021, 21(6):788-792

Optimization of Drilling Path Using the Bees Algorithm

Shafie Kamaruddin ORCID..., Mohamad Naqiuddin Rosdi ORCID..., Nor Aiman Sukindar ORCID...
Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Optimization is the process of finding the best possible solutions of a problem. It has been widely used in various areas especially in engineering problems. One of the common issues that is faced by some of manufacturers is finding drilling sequences of multiple holes. By drilling multiple holes with the least total path length, the manufacturer can save a lot of time and it can increase the productivity of the company. Thus, this study focuses on drilling path of multiple holes problem which has been solved by other researchers. This study uses the Bees Algorithm to find the best sequence of drilling holes (mini-mum total path length) and the results found are compared with the result of other algorithms. In addi-tion to results comparison with other algorithms, the results obtained are verified with simulation results using MasterCAM software. The results comparison shows that the Bees Algorithm achieved compara-ble performance compared to other algorithms.

Keywords: Bees Algorithm, Optimization, Drilling
Grants and funding:

This study was supported by FRGS grant No. FRGS/1/2019/TK03/UIAM/02/3 from Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE). Authors also grateful to the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) which made this study possible.

Received: June 25, 2021; Revised: December 21, 2021; Accepted: December 23, 2021; Prepublished online: December 23, 2021; Published: January 8, 2022  Show citation

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