Synopses & Reviews
The focus of this book is the modeling and analysis of cellular manufacturing systems. Cellular manufacturing, an application of Group Technology, has contributed significantly to revolutionizing the management of modern low volume/high variety manufacturing systems.
Review
Provides a comprehensive treatment of design, planning and control of cellular systems. - Aslib Book Guide
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part-family formation: coding and classification Part-machine group analysis: methods for cell formation. Similarity coefficient-based clustering: methods for cell formation. Mathematical programming and graph theoretic methods for cell formation. Novel methods for cell formation. Other mathematical programming methods for cell formation. Layout planning in cellular manufacturing. Production planning in cellular manufacturing. Control of cellular flexible manufacturing systems. Index.