Due to the competitive nature of market and various products production requirements with short life cycles, cellular manufacturing systems have found a special role in environments. Creativity innovation are results mental effort workforces addition machinery parts allocation. Assignment workforce cells based on interest ability indices is tactical decision while cell formation strategic decis...

Virtual Cellular Manufacturing Systems (VCMSs) are based on a highly flexible manufacturing concept designed to improve the performance of classical Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMSs) and job shop manufacturing environments by creating virtual grouping of the resources temporarily in the production planning and control system. In an environment with fluctuating demand and unpredictable parts...

AbstractGlobalization and rapid technological changes have led to increased customer requirements an intensified competition. To remain cost-efficient, manufacturing companies move from traditional systems towards flexible systems. Reconfigurable proven be effective way of adapting the rapidly changing market conditions. Although, increasing interest in this topic is visible academics industria...

New environmental characteristics and requirements have challenged manufacturing enterprises to improve the efficiency and productivity of their production activities. Cellular manufacturing (CM) as one of the solutions to this problem, as implementation of Group technology (GT), was proposed. Performance of cellular manufacturing systems depends heavily on the cell structure. In this paper we ...

In today’s markets, non-uniform, customized products complicate the manufacturing processes significantly. In this paper, we propose a cellular manufacturing system design model to manage product variety by integrating with the technology selection decision. The proposed model determines the product families and machine groups while deciding the technology of each cell individually. Hedging aga...