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...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

Elaborating an appropriate cellular manufacturing system (CMS) could solve many structural and operational issues. Thereby, considering some significant factors as worker skill, machine hardness, and product quality levels could assist the companies in current competitive environment. This paper proposes a novel interactive possibilistic mixed integer nonlinear approach to minimize the total co...

Grouping the machines and parts in a manufacturing system, based on similarities is known as cell formation problem. The problem is clustering items to form identified and specific groups having similar properties. Cellular Manufacturing System (CMS) can be defined as an application of Group Technology (GT) philosophy that allows decomposing a manufacturing system into subsystems to make it eas...

In this study, a mathematical programming approach is proposed to design a layered cellular manufacturing system in highly fluctuated demand environment. A mathematical model is developed to create dedicated, shared and remainder cells with the objective of minimizing the number of cells. In contrast with classical cellular manufacturing systems, in layered cellular systems, some cells can serv...

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...

Cloud manufacturing is defined as a relationship between the consumer and a flexible array of production services, managed by an intervening architecture that can match service providers to product and manufacturing processes Cloud manufacturing definitions typically make explicit or imply three groups of actors: consumers, who request and use cloud manufacturing processes; application provider...

A multi-phase comprehensive method for the design of hybrid cellular manufacturing (HCM) system is presented in this paper. The initial phase aims at categorizing parts to be produced on the cellular or the functional layout facilities of the system. Second and third phases show a mathematical approach with two inter-related models, where the first is to determine the formation of cells and the...

Information sharing and optimization is a key factor for effective knowledge and work management, which is based on data exchange, communication and technological infrastructures and standardization, being essential in order to remain competitive in the today’s global market scenario. In this context, human functions are also relevant, and in this work we refer to the interaction of both in the...

Cellular manufacturing meets the diversified production and quantity requirements flexibly. However, its efficiency mainly depends on the operators’ working performance. In order to improve its efficiency, an effective assembly-support system should be developed to assist operators during the assembly process. In this chapter, a multi-modal assembly-support system (MASS) was proposed, which aim...