Concurrent scheduling and layout of virtual manufacturing cells considering assembly aspects

K Forghani, SMT Fatemi Ghomi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Cell formation, scheduling, and facility layout are three main decisions in designing
manufacturing cells. In this paper, we address the integration of these decisions in virtual …

Distance function embedded genetic algorithm for maximizing the group efficacy measure of performance of machine-part cells

DK Sharma, B Chaudhuri, M Chattopadhyay… - Soft Computing, 2023 - Springer
Cell formation problems in cellular manufacturing deal with the processing of similar part
families in a machine group with the aim of variation of cell load and exceptional element …

A two-stage novel approach using centre ordering of vectors on agglomerative hierarchical clustering for manufacturing cell formation

S Bera, M Chattopadhyay… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Cellular manufacturing is a prevailing pursuit in increasing productivity and throughput and
in reducing setup and lead time in production systems that are configured as clusters of …

[PDF][PDF] A novel hybrid DCMA-SSA paradigm for the multi-objective Cell Formation Problem

G Nagaraj, A Manimaran, K Vinayagar, S Paramasamy - researchgate.net
Cell Formation Problem (CFP) is a great combinatorial optimization problem. It comprises
grouping of machines and parts into manufacturing cells for processing the parts. For this …