AMT selection and adoption processes have been extensively studied. Topics that include
financial and human factors, productivity, and coordination of the AMT implementation …

This paper stresses the impact of using visual controls in a mobile cell implementation in the
construction industry, expanding the analysis carried out by Santos, Moser & Tookey (2002) …

Most of the techniques for the cell design (CD) problem in cellular manufacturing (CM)
consider only the machine-part incidence matrix as the input. They then convert this matrix …

Group technology has been studied extensively from an 'industrial engineering'perspective
(layout, scheduling, workflow, etc.), but less often from an organisational design viewpoint …

Cellular manufacturing is a manufacturing philosophy with the goal to produce low-medium
volume products with high variety, while maintaining the high productivity of large-scale …

This study investigates two seru scheduling problems in a seru production system (SPS)
with multiple rate-modifying activities and DeJong's learning effect to minimise the total …

The importance of reducing product lotsizes in converting traditional job shops into just‐in‐
time (JIT) type manufacturing systems has been addressed in the literature. This paper …

Lean is the term used to describe the production system developed by the Toyota company
in the post World War II years." Lean" comes from the ability to achieve more with less …

Purpose–This Editorial Viewpoint explores the practical developments in manufacturing
technology management (MTM) over the last 22 years and links these to some of the subject …

Technological development and market diversification increase the complexity of modern
manufacturing environments. Although the popular literature on lean management practices …