As globalisation and competition grow rapidly, adopting a flexible manufacturing philosophy
becomes more critical for manufacturers. Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) is among …

A comprehensive guide to a powerful new analytical tool by two of its foremost innovators
The past decade has witnessed many exciting advances in the use of genetic algorithms …

Random-key genetic algorithms were introduced by Bean (ORSA J. Comput. 6: 154–160,
1994) for solving sequencing problems in combinatorial optimization. Since then, they have …

Cellular manufacturing emerged as a production strategy capable of solving the certain
problems of complexity and long manufacturing lead times in batch production. The …

The initial step in the design of a cellular manufacturing (CM) system is the identification of
part families and machine groups and forming manufacturing cells so as to process each …

A genetic algorithm (GA) metaheuristic-based cell formation procedure is presented in this
paper. The cell formation problem solved here is to simultaneously group machines and part …

The machine-part cell formation problem consists of constructing a set of machine cells and
their corresponding product families with the objective of minimizing the inter-cell movement …

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is an industrial application of group technology concept. One of
the problems encountered in the implementation of CM is the cell formation problem (CFP) …

The cell formation problem determines the decomposition of the manufacturing cells of a
production system in which machines are assigned to these cells to process one or more …

Cell formation problem attempts to group machines and part families in dedicated
manufacturing cells such that the number of voids and exceptional elements in cells are …