In a cellular flexible manufacturing system, a majority of the part types manufactured by the system require machining in a single cell only. However, a few part types (called rare parts) need processing in two or more cells. It is precisely the intercell movement of these rare parts that leads to weak interaction among the otherwise independent cells. We show how this structure can be exploite...

The paper proposes a preventive maintenance (PM) planning model for the performance improvement of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) in terms of machine reliability, and resource utilization. In a CMS, parts are processed by a group of interdependent machines, where machine reliability plays an important role in the performance improvement of the cell. Assuming that machine failure times fol...

Article history: Received 9 June 2012 Received in revised form 4 December 2012 Accepted 5 December 2012 Available online 14 December 2012

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