This paper discusses and reviews a fundamental issue in cellular manufacturing—cell
formation. This problem is of strategic and operational importance in that it affects the …

Design of cellular manufacturing systems: An invited review Page 1 284 European Journal of
Operational Research 69 (1993) 284-291 North-Holland Design of cellular manufacturing …

A fundamental issue in the use of optimization models is the tradeoff between the level of
detail and the ease of using and solving the model. Aggregation and disaggregation …

The use of genetic algorithms to solve function optimization problems requires a coding
scheme that represents solutions as strings of finite length. In this paper, a coding scheme …

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 …

This paper describes a procedure that can be used by facility designers to allocate space to
manufacturing cells. The procedure takes into consideration the area and shape …

An efficient nonhierarchical clustering algorithm, based on initial seeds obtained from the
assignment method, for finding part-families and machine cells for group technology (GT) is …

This paper discusses two formulations of the group technology (GT) problem. The first one
involves basic and alternative process plans without bottleneck parts. The second …

In this study, a robust optimization approach is developed for a new integrated mixed-integer
linear programming (MILP) model to solve a dynamic cellular manufacturing system (DCMS) …

Cellular manufacturing is a well-known strategy for reducing lead times in batch production
systems. Most of the methods of cell formation are based on machinecomponent incidence …