Bibframe Work

This book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology. Its main aim is to provide a reliable tool that can be used by managers and engineers to design manufacturing cells based on their own preferences and constraints imposed by a particular manufacturing system. This tool could potentially lower production costs by minimizing other costs in a number of areas, thereby increasing profit in a manufacturing system. In the volume, the cell formation problem is considered in a systematic and formalized way, and several models are proposed, both heuristic and exact.

Table Of Contents

The Problem of Cell Formation: Ideas and Their Applications

The p-Median Problem

Application of the PMP to Cell Formation in Group Technology

The Minimum Multicut Problem and an Exact Model for Cell Formation

Multiobjective Nature of Cell Formation

Pattern-Based Heuristic for the Cell Formation Problem in Group Technology

Two Models and Algorithms for Bi-Criterion Cell Formation

Summary and Conclusions

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Authorized Access Point

Goldengorin, Boris Cell formation in industrial engineering