This mathematical model forms machine cells, optimises the costs of unassigned machines
and components, and designs the shop floor cell layout to have minimal movement of …

Cellular manufacturing is a layout approach to increaseproductivity in manufacturing. The
basic concept of cellularmanufacturing is to exploit the similarity between parts …

Group technology (GT) and a facility layout problem share a common factor to optimize,
which is the “Intercell Flow or Material Handling Flow”. Most group technology-based …

In today's business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards
maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives …

This paper provides a procedure to address all three phases of the design for cellular
manufacturing namely parts/machines grouping, infra-cell and inter-cell layout designs …

This paper presents a novel integer linear programming model for designing multi-floor
layout of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). Three major and interrelated decisions are …

Purpose: The fundamental function of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) is based on
the definition and recognition of the type of similarity among the parts that should be …

This paper presents a novel integer linear programming model for designing multi-floor
layout of cellular manufacturing systems. Three major and interrelated decisions are …

Clustering based algorithms have been used for machine cells grouping for years and have
been considered as a feasible approach because the algorithms are flexible and easy to …

This paper presents a decision support tool that can be used by practitioners and
industrialists to solve practical cell formation problems. The tool is based on a cell formation …