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 …

Seriation is an exploratory combinatorial data analysis technique to reorder objects into a
sequence along a one‐dimensional continuum so that it best reveals regularity and …

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 …

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

An adaptive genetic approach is proposed as an effective means of providing the optimal
solution to the manufacturing cell formation problem in the design of cellular manufacturing …

Cell formation, one of the most important problems faced in designing cellular manufacturing
systems, is to group parts with similar geometry, function, material and process into part …

The design of a cellular manufacturing system requires that a part population, at least
minimally described by its use of process technology (part/machine incidence matrix), be …

Although many similarity coefficients have been proposed, very few comparative studies
have been done to evaluate the performance of various similarity coefficients. In this paper …

One of the major steps in designing cellular manufacturing systems is to form cells. This
involves identification of machine cells and part families. This paper proposes a new …

The formation of machine and part groups is a central issue in the design of cellular
manufacturing systems. The part-machine incidence matrix has formed the basis of several …