Scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. On other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. A maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equipments...

The problem context for this study is one of identifying families of parts having a similar sequence of operations. This is a prerequisite for the implementation of cellular manufacturing, group technology, just-in-time manufacturing systems and for streamlining material flows in general. Given this problem context, this study develops an experimental procedure to compare the performance of a f...

Virtual cellular manufacturing systems (VCMS) have come into existence, replacing traditional cellular manufacturing systems (CMS), to meet highly dynamic production conditions in terms of demand, processing times, product mix and processing sequence. While cell formation phase of VCMS has been dealt quite voluminously, worker assignments phase has gained momentum recently after researchers sta...

Assembly plays an important role in any production system as it constitutes a significant portion of the lead time and cost of a product. Virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) system is a modern production system being conceptually developed to extend the application of traditional computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) system to global level. Assembly scheduling in VCIM systems is ...

Volatile market demands, stronger regionalization of markets, ever-shortening product and innovation cycles as well an ongoing demand for individualized products increase the need adaptable production systems. More than a century after start mass production, alternative systems are required to go beyond current state art concerning adaptability, flexibility reconfigurability requirements demand...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) has acquired an upward interest of researchers in recent era. The most important problem in designing cellular manufacturing systems is the cell formation (CF), which constructs part families with similar processing requirements and designates machines into machine cells to optimize the production process. This article presents a short research report based on hybrid...