A cellular manufacturing system (CMS) belongs to a family of modern production methods, which many industrial sectors have used beneficially in recent years. In fact, this system is an application of group technology (GT) determining cell formation (i.e. clustering part families and machine grouping) and layout design (i.e., inter-cell and intra-cell layouts). In the last two decades, a number ...

In this paper, a mixed-integer linearized programming (MINLP) model is presented to design a group layout (GL) of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) in a dynamic environment and considering production planning (PP) decisions. This model incorporates an extensive coverage of important manufacturing features used in the design of CMSs. There are also some features that make the presented model...

A dynamic and optimal shop floor design, modelling and implementation is key to achieving successful Fractal Manufacturing System (FrMS). To build adaptive and fault-tolerant fractal layout, attention is paid to issues of shop floor planning, function layout, determination of capacity level, cell composition planning and flow distances of products. A full fledged FrMS. layout is multi-functiona...

The core of a Trinitarian model is the internal layout intra-Trinitarian relations. Depending on different metaphysical interpretations nature relations, various patristic authors have produced and oftentimes incompatible models, and, consequently, conflicting expositions doctrine Trinity. To elucidate differences in their theologies, I demonstrate divergence understanding divine relations usin...

A high-performance ASIC has been developed to serve as the interface for the 10-ns bus in the new AlphaServer 8000 series server systems from Digital. The CMOS standard-cell alternative (CSALT) technology provides a timing-driven layout methodology together with a correct-by-construction approach for managing the complex device physics issues associated with state-of-the-art CMOS processes. The...

Printed circuit board layout inspection methods are mostly based on local geometric information, therefor they are well suited to the CNN paradigm. Here the detection of two layout errors is considered namely, the breaks in the wires and some kind of short circuits. The designed analogic algorithms to solve the problems above were tested on real life examples using an experimental system based ...

cellular manufacturing system is one of the most important applications of group technology. design of this system involves many structural and operational issues, in which the cell formation and production planning are two important steps. in this paper, a new mathematical model is proposed for integration of cell formation and production planning problems with the aim of minimizing the overal...

| The paper proposes a new layout-driven multi-level logic factorization methodology for regular arrays of two-input cells, that can nd practical applications in ne-grain FPGA design, standard cell, gate matrix layout and sub-micron technologies. A new factorization algorithm for AND/OR/EXOR logic with multi-valued literals is introduced, that has application to minimization of Logic Cell Array...