Layout design and the flow of materials have a significant impact on performance of manufacturing system (garments industry) .These can help to increase productivity, reduce work in process and inventory, short production lead time, streamlines the flow of materials, cost and reduce non value added activities from the production process of waiting and transportation, which make the factory meet...

Article history: Received 1 April 2010 Received in revised form 22 July 2010 Accepted 30 July 2010 Available online 1 Auguest 2010 Meta-heuristic approaches are general algorithmic framework, often nature-inspired and designed to solve NP-complete optimization problems in cellular manufacturing systems and has been a growing research area for the past two decades. This paper discusses various m...

Cellular manufacturing system is the formation of optimised machine cells, which forms part families with similar processing requirements and associates machines into machine cells in order to optimise the overall production process. To effectively solve this problem a hybrid novel approach is demonstrated in this paper, which is based on weighted average linkage clustering algorithm and fuzzy-...

This article demonstrates effective techniques for component/part family formation problem in the vicinity of Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS). Past investigations reported that part family formation techniques are typically grounded on production flow analysis (PFA) which largely considers operational requirements, sequences and time. Part coding analysis (PCA) is merely counted in cellula...

This paper presents a new hybrid Fuzzy-ART based K-Means Clustering technique to solve the part machine grouping problem in cellular manufacturing systems considering operational time. The performance of the proposed technique is tested with problems from open literature and the results are compared to the existing clustering models such as simple Kmeans algorithm and modified ART1 algorithm us...

This paper develops a mathematical model in dynamic virtual cellular manufacturing systems with the multiperiod cell formation problem, production planning, dynamic virtual system reconfiguration and training workers. Since workers have important role in doing jobs on machines, assignment of workers to cells becomes a crucial factor in cellular manufacturing system. Also we have shown the role ...