Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are considered the future of manufacturing,
being able to overcome both dedicated (DMS) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). In …

Meta-heuristic approaches are general algorithmic framework, often nature-inspired and
designed to solve NP-complete optimization problems in cellular manufacturing systems …

Cell formation (CF) is a key step in group technology (GT). This combinatorial optimization
problem is NP-complete. So, meta-heuristic algorithms have been extensively adopted to …

This paper deals with configuring manufacturing cells when product mix variation occurs.
Most of researches have addressed the cell formation problem when part-machine …

Cell formation is the fundamental step while designing a cellular manufacturing system.
Integration of job sequencing with cell formation can attain lower make-spans. The …

Manufacturing industries are enhancing their production and supply chain in today's
competitive market environment using the new manufacturing technology and system. The …

Background: Cell-based assays have become the method of choice for compound
screening in drug discovery. Such assays are used in high-throughput screening to identify …

Intelligent computation refers to intelligence artificially realised through computation. This
chapter reviews six intelligent computation techniques. They are: knowledge-based …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are considered the future of manufacturing,
being able to overcome both dedicated (DMS) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). In …

The essential problem in Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) is to identify the machine
cells and subsequent part families with an aim to curtail the intercell and intracell traffic …