Design of cellular manufacturing systems: An invited review Page 1 284 European Journal of
Operational Research 69 (1993) 284-291 North-Holland Design of cellular manufacturing …

The application of group technology concepts to the design and operation of manufacturing
cells has had a major impact on improving the performance of multiproduct, moderate …

A number of survey papers on group technology and cellular manufacturing system design
have been published. Many of them focus primarily on clustering techniques that manipulate …

The emergence of new information technologies, market globalization, climate change,
labor shortages, and changing consumer habits have led to dynamic demand and the need …

This study develops a methodology which can be used to form manufacturing cells using
both a new similarity coefficient based on the number of alternative routes during machine …

A pre-emptive goal programming formulation is developed for concurrently forming
independent part/machine cells. Machine independent capability units, which are known as …

Cellular manufacturing (CM) has received considerable interest owing to its promising
application as an appropriate manufacturing philosophy for just-in-time (JIT) and flexible …

Publisher Summary Cell formation, one major problem with cellular manufacturing, involves
the process of grouping the parts with similar design features or processing requirements …

A two-phase procedure for configuring a cellular manufacturing system is proposed. In
Phase I, a new similarity coefficient which considers the number of alternative routes when …

The majority of the cell formation models consider grouping of parts and machines, based
on clustering techniques. The performance of cells thus formed indicates that the cellular …