Applications of the Group Technology Theory in Manufacturing

Group Technology is a manufacturing philosophy and strategy that assists a company in understanding what it manufactures and how those products are then manufactured. GT provides a means to identify and exploit the "underlying sameness" or similarities of parts and processes. Once identified, it is possible to capitalize on these similarities by processing together groups of similar parts (families), by standardizing and simplifying closely related and repetitive activities to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort and by efficient storing and retrieving of information related to recurring problems, thereby avoiding solving the same problem again and again.