The purpose of this paper is to provide a review and comparison of the approaches to multi-
criteria decision-making (MCDM) in the design of manufacturing cells. A brief description of …

We present a comprehensive model for designing a cellular manufacturing system. The
model bridges several known problems in that it integrates the cell formation problem, the …

In this study a multi-objective problem considering uncertainty and flexibility of job sequence
in an automated flexible job shop (AFJS) is considered using manufacturing simulation. The …

Cell formation is an important problem in the design of a cellular manufacturing system.
Despite a large number of papers on cell formation being published, only a handful …

We present a genetic approach for finding efficient solutions to the problem of forming
manufacturing cells for products having multiple routings. We consider the case where there …

Flexible manufacturing systems generally provide the possibility to use different process
plans to manufacture a part owing to versatile machines. In this context, the design of …

In this paper, an approach is proposed for designing independent manufacturing cells in
cellular manufacturing with alternative process plans and machine duplication …

The sports goods manufacturing industry in India has gained phenomenal growth over the
past five decades and now holds a prominent place in the Indian economy by providing …

In this study, fuzzy set theory (FST) is used to set out the cell layout. A new algorithm which
will consider both design and manufacturing attributes and operation sequences as factors …

Since the cell formation problem is considered to be a complex and multi-criteria problem,
then no single algorithm can provide all the promised benefits. To gain more benefits of the …