The design of cellular manufacturing system (CMS) involves many structural and operational issues. One of the important CMS design steps is the formation of part families and machine cells which is called cell formation. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to solve a new mathematical model for cell formation in cellular manufacturing systems based on cell utilization concept. The p...

This paper is in search of designing the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under dynamic and flexible environment. CM is proper for small-to-medium lot production environment that helps the companies to produce variable kind of productions with at least scraps. The most important benefits of CM are decline in material handling, reduction in work-in-process, reduction in set-up time, increme...

Cell formation problem (CFP) is one of the main problems in cellular manufacturing systems. Minimizing exceptional elements and voids is one of the common objectives in the CFP. The purpose of the present study is to propose a new model for cellular manufacturing systems to group parts and machines in dedicated cells using a part-machine incidence matrix to minimize the voids. After identifying...

The application of group technology to production systems has in many firms led to the introduction of cellular manufacturing. This paper studies the changes that are required in the organization of the planning and control systems when applying cellular manufacturing. We review existing frameworks for designing such a planning and control system and propose a new framework that gives attention...

This paper addresses a stochastic model in order to design the cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs) under uncertain environment. In real-world cases, any parameters such as demand, processing time, inter arrival time and etc may change over the planning horizon. In this research, it’s assumed that processing time for parts on machines and arrival time for parts to cells are stochastic and desc...

In this paper, we present a simulated annealing (SA) and a genetic algorithm (GA) based on heuristics for scheduling problem of jobs in virtual cellular manufacturing systems. A virtual manufacturing cell (VMC) is a group of resources that is dedicated to the manufacturing of a part family. Although this grouping is not reflected in the physical structure of the manufacturing system, but machin...