Soto, R.Crawford, B.Carrasco, C.Almonacid, B.Reyes, V.Araya, I.Misra, S.Olguín, E.6/22/20222022-09-306/22/20222022-09-302016https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_7The Manufacturing Cell Design is a problem that consist in organize machines in cells to increase productivity, i.e., minimize the movement of parts for a given product between machines. In order to solve this problem we use a Dolphin Echolocation algorithm, a recent bio-inspired metaheuristic based on a dolphin feature, the echolocation. This feature is used by the dolphin to search all around the search space for a target, then the dolphin exploits the surround area in order to find promising solutions. Our approach has been tested by using a set of 10 benchmark instances with several configurations, reaching to optimal values for all of them. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.application/pdfenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessComputer ScienceMathematicsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1007/978-3-319-42092-9_7http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.02.01