One important issue regarding the implementation of cellular manufacturing systems relates to deciding whether to convert an existing job shop into a cellular manufacturing system comprehensively in a single go, or in stages incrementally by forming cells one after the other taking the advantage of the experiences of implementation. In this paper two heuristic methods based on multi-stage progr...

Most production environments face random, unexpected events such as machine failure, uncertain processing times, the arrival of new jobs, and cancellation jobs. For reduction undesirable side effects an disruption, initial schedule needs to be reformed partially or entirely. In this paper, a mathematical model is presented address integrated cell formation cellular rescheduling problems in manu...